This is the story of Hurricane Katrina and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, including
pictures of the Gulfport Veterans Administration Hospital buildings following Katrina.

The Story of Hurricane Katrina
and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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THE STORY OF HURRICANE KATRINA - TEXT

THE TRACK OF KATRINA & RADAR & SATELLITE

DESTRUCTION OF POST 119 BY KATRINA

THE GULFPORT VA CENTER AFTER KATRINA

RESIDENTIAL PICTURES PICTURES AFTER KATRINA

OTHER PICTURES ALONG THE GULF COAST

PICTURES OF BOATS FOLLOWING KATRINA

AERIAL PICTURES OF KATRINA'S DESTRUCTION

DIRECTORY OF HURRICANE KATRINA LINKS


The Gulfport Mississippi Veterans
Hospital After Hurricane Katrina
Picture Postcard Of The Gulfport VA Center

     The picture above, a classic "Picture Postcard", shows what the Entrance and Main Building of the Gulfport Veterans Administration Hospital looked like before Hurricane Katrina. The Gulfport Center property is approximately a 40 acre location. The entrance shown above is located about 200 yards North of the white sand beach and the Gulf of Mexico waters.

Gulfport VA Center Main Building

     The picture above shows what the "Storm Surge" of Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulfport Veterans Administration Hospital's Main Building.
A note about water: It must be understood that water weights about 60 pounds per cubic foot and has unusually low compressibility. Imagine a nearly solid wall of water 30 feet deep, and 1,000 feet wide traveling at 20 miles per hour. At 60 pounds per cubic foot, that would be tons of fast moving water. Moving water can easily go around the sharp corners of a building, but it "slams" straight into the flat walls of any structure. Fast moving water can also go around the circular trunk of a tree. Although small trees may not be able to withstand the force of fast moving water, larger and stronger trees can. That's why almost all of the larger trees on the Mississippi Gulf Coast remained standing after Hurricane Camille in August of 1969 and Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005.It must be understood that water weights about 60 pounds per cubic foot and has unusually low compressibility. Imagine a nearly solid wall of water 30 feet deep, and 1,000 feet wide traveling at 20 miles per hour. At 60 pound per cubic foot, that would be tons of fast moving water. Moving water can easily go around the sharp corners of a building such as the corners above, but it "slams" straight into the flat walls of any structure such as those above. Fast moving water can also go around the circular trunk of a tree. Although small trees may not be able to withstand the force of fast moving water, larger and stronger trees can. That's why almost all of the large trees on the Mississippi Gulf Coast remained standing after Hurricane Camille in August of 1969 and Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005.

Gulfport VA

     The picture above shows what the "Storm Surge" of Hurricane Katrina did to the Veterans Administration Hospital's Chapel. The next picture, taken from outside the fence, will be the last of our pictures showing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Another Gulfport VA Center Building

     The picture above shows what little damage appears to have occurred to the flat walls of one of the other buildings after the "Storm Surge" of Hurricane Katrina. It may be that the large number of windows, broken inward by the Storm Surge, reduced
the pressure of the moving water on the flat walls of the building.

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THE STORY OF HURRICANE KATRINA - TEXT

THE TRACK OF KATRINA & RADAR & SATELLITE

DESTRUCTION OF POST 119 BY KATRINA

THE GULFPORT VA CENTER AFTER KATRINA

RESIDENTIAL PICTURES PICTURES AFTER KATRINA

OTHER PICTURES ALONG THE GULF COAST

PICTURES OF BOATS FOLLOWING KATRINA

AERIAL PICTURES OF KATRINA'S DESTRUCTION

DIRECTORY OF HURRICANE KATRINA LINKS


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