Katrina's toll in Mississippi per Sunherald

[MGC]

This from today's Sunherald newspaper. 125 BILLION Dollars estimated damage caused by Katrina in Mississippi. 231 identified dead. 5 unidentified dead. 67 missing. 65,380 houses in south Mississippi destroyed.

Read all about it here: http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/13402585.htm

[Derek Ortt]

not surprised at the damage

the 80 billion for Katrina and the 14.4 for Wilma given in the season summary by the NHC were likely the worst numbers given in a season summary, ever. A doubling of both would get us closer to reality

[HurricaneBill]

I have to ask.

Were any areas along the Mississippi coast spared? Or is there basically not a single house left standing?

The article is right though. Whatever damage New Orleans received, the Mississippi coast received FAR worse.

Think of the towns that were destroyed or wiped out: Waveland, Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, Gulfport, etc.

OK, I know the towns are still there, but they were FUBARed by Katrina.

I think a documentary needs to be made about Mississippi's devastation.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

I think 200 billion be very close to happening. Also that documentary needs to be shown to every one that wishs to move to the coast in the tropics.

[Lindaloo]

I have to ask.

Were any areas along the Mississippi coast spared? Or is there basically not a single house left standing?

The article is right though. Whatever damage New Orleans received, the Mississippi coast received FAR worse.

Think of the towns that were destroyed or wiped out: Waveland, Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis, Biloxi, Gulfport, etc.

OK, I know the towns are still there, but they were FUBARed by Katrina.

I think a documentary needs to be made about Mississippi's devastation.

In my town (Pascagoula) homes were either wiped clean as far as a mile and a half inland. Ones that did not get wiped clean were gutted or flooded. Surrounding cities like Moss Point, Gautier, Vancleave and Escatawpa saw flooding and homes further inland were destroyed by wind.

We lost our post offices, churches, city government buildings, schools, insurance offices, grocery stores and banks. It is pitiful. Our police department was also flooded. They lost about half their fleet and we had no communications. One of our police officers parked his police motorcycle in the middle of the police station so they could dispatch. It was quite sad.

[HurryKane]

Regarding what was left untouched: everything along the MS coastline was affected in some way. There are homes in Bay St. Louis, Diamondhead, Pass Christian, and so on to the east, that were not completely wiped off the map. Some of these homes/buildings flooded a little or a lot, some had only wind damage. But the vast majority of these coastline towns and cities took a huge hit...so no, nothing was left spared in the 'undamaged' sense of the word, but there are homes and buildings left intact.

In my neighborhood, the west portion flooded up to 10 feet. Several homes on the south portion that is north of I-10 were completely gutted by the surge, and many others in that area were flooded a large amount. The portion of Diamondhead south of the interstate was completely destroyed--some homes washed away, others pushed off their pilings, and others gutted. You can see straight through the yacht club down there. I live in the extremely 'high' portion of the neighbohood--50-90 foot elevation--so only wind damage affected those of us in my immediate area. I'd say 30% of the neighborhood homes were rendered unliveable, with 40-50% of thoses being total losses and the rest being homes that can be repaired after a good gutting.


Inland parts of Gulfport are doing pretty well (mostly wind damage) and holiday shopping traffic there is just as bad as ever.

[MGC]

I was shopping the othe day and stopped at the Lazy Boy furniture store on Hwy 49 near the airport. They said they had about 2.5 feet of water. The store is about 1 mile south of I-10. Turkey Creek backed up.....MGC