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Gulfport will remain, but some of those casinos don't exist anymore...
Yep, I think you can pretty much kiss the entire coastal regions of Mississippi and Alabama goodbye, with Gulfport, MS ceasing to exist.
Gulfport will remain, but some of those casinos don't exist anymore...
Unless the land physically eroded into the sea, the newer buildings will still be there, especially the ones made of concrete.
Water is six feet high over Interstate 10 near the Biloxi River. Near Gulfport, container trailers and other debris have floated over the roadway on I-10. The road is more than 20 feet above sea level.
Han County, MS Emergency Operations Center took on a foot of water from the storm surge. The building was located 30 feet above sea level before the storm.
Sheesh, this thing has some serious reach.
Pensacola, Fl...
The weather service reported that "extensive and life-threatening storm surge flooding" was occurring along the Louisiana and Mississippi coast.The Associated Press reported that entire neighborhoods along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain were flooded, and residents had scrambled onto the roofs of their shotgun-style houses.Authorities in Gulfport, Mississippi, told CNN's Gary Tuchman that 10 feet of water covered downtown streets.The U.S. Coast Guard said it has received reports that Katrina has set adrift one, and possibly two, unmanned off-shore oil drilling units in the Gulf of Mexico.
With the damage that "Thunderhorse" sustained during Dennis, I wonder if it survived this round.
Last edited by 1369; 08-29-2005 at 02:01 PM. Reason: Wrong hurricane name
what is a "shot-gun" style house. I can take a guess (piece-o-crap construction?) but I've never heard this expression before.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildi...gun_House.html
If I remember correctly it means you can stand at the front door and hit something outside the back door with a shotgun.
"Shotgun" style houses are long, narrow, and tightly packed together.
Term comes from an observation that if you fired a shotgun through the front door, it would reach all the way to the back room (or at least as so I've heard).
It's a narrow, long, wooden-frame house. It's called a "shotgun" house because it's only one room wide, so if you fired a shotgun at the house from the front porch, it would go through every room before exiting the back.
Those homes date from early in the 20th century and are inhabitated mostly by impoverished blacks.
*** Lake Pontchartrain coming over a road ***
This is nothing compared to what this was hyped up to be. How the is it that New Orleans keeps averting disaster at the very last second, with Mississippi getting screwed every freaking time? The thing looked like it disintegrated on the side that hit New Orleans. I was expecting to see way worse photos than anything I've come across so far.
Well ya. NO did get lucky. I just wonder what the total damages/death toll will be after the hurricane. They won't be as bad as predicted, but they will be very terrible.
It's a style of house with no hallways, just four or five rooms in a row from front to back. They were real popular in the deep South because it's very easy to add rooms on the backside of the house for the poor folks that own them. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's a term for any cheaply constrcuted home now.
(I think the term comes from being able to fire a shotgun from the front porch, with the load going through every room to the back wall.)
NO isn't out of the woods yet.
Well, to be fair you've got places that the reporters can't get to yet in NO. , the east side of New Orleans is under 8 feet of water, kinda hard to take a picture of that.
I agree though, Mississippi is getting destroyed while NO lives on.
Voodoo.How the is it that New Orleans keeps averting disaster at the very last second, with Mississippi getting screwed every freaking time?
I half expected to wake up to New Orleans looking like Phuket or something.
Here is a photo of a shotgun house.
Seriously, NO dodged another bullet. Its simply amazing.
Well, you got your wish baseline bum...
WDSU reporter Heath Allen says he is stranded on the second floor of the St. Bernard Parish government building. He said officials are telling him the water is 15 to 20 feet deep on the streets throughout the parish. -- WDSU.com Web Staff
For those of you playing along at home, St. Bernard Parish is the south side of Lake Pontchartrain.
Google map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=St.+Be...&start=0&hl=en
thanks to everyone who answered my shotgun questionHere is a photo of a shotgun house.
Jefferson, St Bernard, Orleans are all south of Ponch.The Associated Press reported that entire neighborhoods along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain were flooded, and residents had scrambled onto the roofs of their shotgun-style houses.
Those are 9th Ward houses on the East Side of the Industrial Canal over where the Lakefront Airport is.
I lived in the upper 9th ward from 81-85 and it is total crap.
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