This is the story of Hurricane Katrina and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, including
pictures of residential homes destroyed by the winds and storm surge of Katrina.

The Story of Hurricane Katrina and the Mississippi Gulf Coast

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Residential Homes Destroyed By Hurricane Katrina

The picture on the left is a picture of a residential neighborhood Fire Engine Company #7 on Cowan Road in Gulfport. Only the West wall remains intact. The North, East, and South walls were destroyed by the "Storm Surge" of Hurricane Katrina. An overturned car is lying upside down the South wall. The car was probably from a large Motel 100 yards to the South.     The picture on the right is only one of thousands of destroyed homes and vehicles all over the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The number of photographs we can show is limited, but we feel this picture is representative of many of them.    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.

The picture on the left shows the jumbled mess of a Hurricane Katrina residential neighborhood destroyed home. Part of the roof on top of the kitchen sink, 2x4 studs and 4x8 beams, pipes, furniture, clothes, papers, toys, all piled up on it's concrete foundation.      The picture on the right shows part of a residential neighborhood obliterated by the Storm Surge of Hurricane Katrina. It's nearly impossible to accurately identify anything in the picture except a bent electric power pole, trees, a water or sewer pipe, a barrel, and what looks like a bathroom sink. There is standing water on the ground. This was not caused by Hurricane Katrina, but by a thunderstorm several weeks after Katrina. The Storm Surge of Katrina would have resulted in water higher than the break point in the tree behind the bent power pole. This also means the water would have been over the roofs of the homes in the background.

The picture on the left shows the only remaining object of this home is the bathroom toilet bolted through the bathroom tile floor onto the concrete foundation. In the background is what's left of another home in the same block. Only the concrete foundation remains with a few small objects left on the slab. In the far upper right background is shown what's left of nearly one half of a block of small wooden homes with concrete foundations. Only the concrete foundations remain. Everything inside these homes was swept away by the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina.      The picture on the right shows shows the concrete foundation of a brick home which was so badly damaged by the Storm Surge of Hurricane Katrina that it's remains were bulldozed off the slab into the back yard. The owner of the home said that the same type of brick home would be built on the concrete foundation sometime during 2006.

The picture on the left shows what's left of several homes in another neighborhood. The center home's North wall remains standing, but it's East and South walls were smashed to the ground by the Storm Surge of Hurricane Katrina. The Ford Station Wagon in front of the home looks OK, but the front of the vehicle was smashed, the windows broken, and the inside of the vehicle was full black muddy salt water mud and leaves. The black vehicle belongs to an immediate neighbor who's home was so badly damaged that he personally bulldozed his home to it's concrete foundation. The owner of the home said he would rebuild his home to nearly the same type of home he had before Hurricane Katrina. Nearly the same comment has been heard from many homeowners on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.      The picture on the right shows three homeowners properties with only their driveways remaining. All three homes were swept away by the Storm Surge of Hurricane Katrina. All three homeowners also say they will rebuild and remain in their same neighborhood. Again, this kind of comment has been heard from many property owners in what was once known as Mississippi City, Mississippi which was incorporated into the City of Gulfport many years ago.

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