Biloxi, Mississippi ~ May 25, 2006
Ocean front property... it used-to-be a tourist area, filled with luxurious homes (which were ripped apart)... and quaint old homes (nothing left but foundations)...
FEMA trailers next to bare slabs of foundations and piles of bricks; all that is left of those homes...

There were Casinos (now mostly rubble)...One Casino was partially up & running. It was the ONLY business we saw going on in this area with the exception of construction and demolition. People gotta have their gambling...

Hotels and restaurants and shops (blasted and uninhabited)... Actually, it was difficult to tell what buildings were originally.

A Mission for pre-Katrina homeless men (nothing left but the sign)...24 drown there...

The big bridge across the bay (dominoed down to pilings)... the shrimp boats (mostly gone, some being repaired, some giving tours), the beach (debris- strewn) the ocean (still contaminated) ... Signs warning of the danger in walking the beach and swimming in the water. A few people swimming in it anyway.