Sunday was spent going to Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Gail showed me where the raw hurricane force had slammed into the towns posed on the water. There were no delta lands to absorb the driving wind and water. The first three or four blocks in every town were wiped clean. However in many places building stilts that were to keep structures up above the water, were left as stark reminders that what water won’t do, wind will. Many of the roads were washed away. (I was amazed that at the west end of Galveston Island there was house after house on the beach, up on stilts. I wonder if anyone from there ever checked out the destruction on Mississippi Beaches and made any mental connections!) When we drove back into Waveland, Pass Christian, Long Beach, we saw what are called “Katrina Cottages” single-wide mobile homes with peaked metal roofs, Hardie plank siding and a front porch. The “cottages” came in a variety of charming light pastel colors. Mississippi was on the road to recovery from the 2005 hurricane. Whereas Louisiana wasn’t even “on-the-road.” I can understand why there is such bitterness in the effected area.
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