I’m quite…
Well, shit. I don’t know what I am. I want to say blown away, but I don’t want to enter into horrible pun-land. I’m taken aback. Amazed. Devastated. Saddened. Whatever.
I used to live in Biloxi. I can’t believe how bad the damage is. Places I know, that I used to hang out, at are gone. GONE. As in, not there anymore. The Olive Garden that was on the corner I used to hang a right on to get to work at Beach Blvd and DeBuys, it’s gone. So’s the McDonalds, the Village Sports Pub, where we all used to go every weekend and sometimes after work. GONE. So is most of the strip center. Bridges connecting cities are gone, totally demolished. The Grand Casino in Biloxi is washed across 90. Treasure Bay’s pirate ship is beached. A barge from one of the casinos in Gulfport pivoted around the casino and is sitting ON Beach Blvd. The flags dividing Biloxi and Gulfport that waved on the beach are completely gone. An entire apartment building is gone, two churches - gone. Three of four walls at one school collapsed. Roofs ripped off of fire departments, a courthouse wall collapsed. Pretty much everything along 90, which is Beach Blvd., is destroyed.
I’m afraid the house I used to live in is destroyed, but there’s no way to know - it was only two blocks off the beach. My friend Jamie, who used to be my roommate and now lives in Gulfport is OK, but he’s afraid he might not have a house left - he lived near a river. The paper wasn’t that far from the beach, and I’m wondering what damage it sustained.
The Sun Herald has a blog, eyes on katrina, if you’re interested.
If you’re the praying sort, please pray for the people in the area. Thanks.
i understand. i have family in rural louisiana just north of lake pontchartrain… it’s difficult to get any details on the flooding in that area (what with the chaos in new orleans and in mississippi). it’s frustrating as hell to have no way of communicating with them.