A personal view of Katrina's Destruction

[Frank P]

house on the beach in Biloxi the day before the storm with shutters all buttoned up



house the day after the storm.... oaks still standing... house gone, shutters gone too... next time need to build thicker shutters..



here is a pix of what's left of the living room slab... ceramic tile still there, hurricane bolts bent back...



the second floor was found two weeks later one block north of the beach... shutter still on two of the windows.



here is another view of the second floor, its the little white house in the center of the pix... I'm standing in my back yard when I took the picture...

[StormyMS]

Those pictures are amazing. Where did you ride out the storm? Incredibly, we have some places here in Hattiesburg that are also totally destroyed. I hope you have found a comfortable place to stay. I know that things must be horrible there, at best. Best of luck to you and your family.

[Frank P]

not sure why this didn't work...

[Frank P]

thanks StormyMS but when I try to open the post I don't see the pixs... hopefully others can...

[Frank P]

I rode out the storm in Biloxi on Benachi Street... the entire street was flooded except 3 houses... and I was in one of the three houses

[JtSmarts]

Frank I think the reason you cannot see the pictures is, because you have to put [img] behind each one. If you do that each of them they should show

[vbhoutex]

I've fixed the pics. They should show now. They do for me.

Frank, what freaks me out is that your second floor is 2 blocks North and it didn't float through those trees!!! It had to float over them!!!!!

[cjrciadt]

[Frank P]

I've fixed the pics. They should show now. They do for me.

Frank, what freaks me out is that your second floor is 2 blocks North and it didn't float through those trees!!! It had to float over them!!!!!

thanks VB for fixing them... we're still debating on how the second floor floated to where it eventually ended up...

if you look real close at the second pix with the two Oaks you can see a large pecan tree on the left of pix.. it has debris marks 15 feet up the tree, that's 35 feet above sea level...

[JuliannaMKH]

Holy cow!

How old was your house? It looked like it was a lovely place.

[CajunMama]

"next time need to build thicker shutters.. "

Frank, your shutters looked great! Unbelievable what happened to your home though.

[HurryKane]

I've fixed the pics. They should show now. They do for me.

Frank, what freaks me out is that your second floor is 2 blocks North and it didn't float through those trees!!! It had to float over them!!!!!

We found the intact third floor of a home in Bay St. Louis that had been relocated north across Highway 90 and then dumped on the ground west a couple of blocks from its original location. Ma Nature sure was mad that day.

[Frank P]

I've fixed the pics. They should show now. They do for me.

Frank, what freaks me out is that your second floor is 2 blocks North and it didn't float through those trees!!! It had to float over them!!!!!

We found the intact third floor of a home in Bay St. Louis that had been relocated north across Highway 90 and then dumped on the ground west a couple of blocks from its original location. Ma Nature sure was mad that day.

Yeah, Katrina was one pissed off woman, the MS coast and SE LA will take years to recover... .... Camille and Katrina .... now thats a pair to remember....

I had just finished installing vinyl siding on my house in May, it was a two year project that I did myself, and included all new vinyl insulated windows and adding additional hurricane straps to the existing ones, and the 1 inch thick wooden shutters that I finished one month before the storm... for the record the Alcoa Grand Sierra vinyl siding held up quite well in the wind, impact from debris caused it to be damaged on the second floor... anyone in a high wind area might want to consider this particular type of siding on their new home...

[NastyCat4]

That was allegedly a Cat 3? Oh please........

[Terry]

Holy Mackeral. That is unbelievable, Frank. Glad you are Ok, but I'm very sad about your pretty home.

[Brent]

That's what a Cat 5 surge will do.

[O Town]

Wow frank. That is totally amazing. Seems the surge does more damage than the wind, I think we all know this. Funny how all the trees are still standing. Not much green left on them but they are there. I think all the water kept them in the ground. I bet alot of the trees will adventually die though. Alot of the trees here that where still standing after the storms last year ending up dying this year.


The photos are almost unbelievable, I sure hope you and your family will rebuild, and rebuild bigger and better. God bless.

[KatDaddy]

Very sad photos Frank. All can I can say is WOW. All the trees and grass are burned by the salt spray. The power of water is just unreal.
I hope your recovery is fast but I know this will not be the case. It will take many many years to recover from such a disaster.

[f5]

Wow frank. That is totally amazing. Seems the surge does more damage than the wind, I think we all know this. Funny how all the trees are still standing. Not much green left on them but they are there. I think all the water kept them in the ground. I bet alot of the trees will adventually die though. Alot of the trees here that where still standing after the storms last year ending up dying this year.


The photos are almost unbelievable, I sure hope you and your family will rebuild, and rebuild bigger and better. God bless.

those trees will die due to salt water infiltration

[yzerfan]

Though a surprising number of the trees will make it. If the standing water went down fairly quickly, then often a lot of the red/brown is from salt spray that eventually washes off in rainfall. There are a lot of pines down by the coast that looked pretty dead after Ivan that have made solid recoveries since then.