Katrina, time take their toll on Mississippi town (CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

Programming note: "CNN Presents" explores Gulf Coast residents' frustrating fight with insurance companies, on Saturday and Sunday at 8 and 11 p.m. ET.

Katrina, time take their toll on Mississippi town

6 months later, Bay St. Louis residents still struggling

By Kathleen Koch
CNN

BAY ST. LOUIS, Mississippi (CNN)
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Still, nothing could prepare me for what I found the day I returned to the place I used to call home days after Hurricane Katrina, nor for the infuriatingly slow response and recovery I would track over the next six months.
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Katrina's 125-mile-an-hour winds and 34-foot storm surge put 95 percent of my town underwater. Nearly every business and home was heavily damaged or destroyed. Water surged inland 7 miles, submerging even I-10, the interstate highway. Every span of the two-mile-long bridge connecting Bay St. Louis to the rest of the Mississippi Gulf Coast was ripped apart.
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Residents have waged their hardest, most frustrating battles with insurance companies. Even though most people had homeowners' insurance, wind policies and even hurricane coverage, few have received significant post-Katrina payments.

Sustained hurricane winds hit peak force six hours before the storm surge reached its highest point, further inundating homes with water. Insurance companies claim this surge caused the damage -- not the hurricane itself.

more at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/17/koch.katrina/index.html

[geomon666]

1. And what the hell caused the surge?

The storm! Pay these people you f***ing rat bastards!

[BOSSHOG]

2. Our Congressman

Gene Taylor, who lives in Bay St Louis said that there should be a national registry for insurance executives like there is for sex offenders. The town is still a mess.

[pitohui]

4. it's beyond belief what happened to bay st. louis

there are just no words for the devastation

waveland as well

anyone know when the bridge is going to be replaced or if/when casino magic will re-open? the casino was in many ways a meeting place for the older folk of the town

[BOSSHOG]

6. Per a story

in yesterday's Picayune (MS) Newspaper, Boomtown Casino in Biloxi and Casino Majic in BSL should reopen in late 2006 says Peter M. Carlino, CEO of Penn National Gaming.

[pitohui]

9. good to hear they will be back EOM

.

[Suich]

3. I'm surprised Haley Barbour can't get any help for Mississippi.

I thought the administration went out of it's way for republican governors, like Rick Perry and Jeb Bush.

[pitohui]

5. even trent lott is bitching

he's got nothin but a slab and a lawsuit against state farm, so much for *co's promises abt drinkin mint juleps on lott's new front porch

they don't even look after their own, no wonder the rest of us are effed

[RB TexLa]

7. Go back and look at the energy bill debate from last year

You will see Trent and Mary talking about marshlands, hurricanes, what would happen to Trent's house and New Orleans, all on the Senate floor.

[tsuki]

8. But, But, But Haley Barbour did such a GOOD job during the

hurricane and after. He did what a Democratic Governor couldn't do.:sarcasm: