Hurricane Katrina - Mississippi Gulf Coast

[serfmom11]

My mom lost everything in Katrina in Long Beach, MS. My mom is in this video and I can see the sheer agony in her as she got her first upclose look at what was, wasn't, left of what she and my dad had called home.

[jenisist]

Thank you for making and posting this, it made me tear up. I am from Long Beach, a few blocks north from the beach, but still south of the tracks. We evacuated (thank God) and I wasn't able to come home until many months later, but I was only nine.

[FullmetalninjaDR]

I was in Ocean Springs MS during the storm, I got into biloxi 5 days after the storm thanks to a friend in the Air Force.....if you wanted to see horror you should have been there...dead deer on the roads(deer island) dead people stuck in oak trees, a few graves blown out of the dirt. President Casino in the parking lot of the Coast Coliseum(shown at 0:14) it was bad, however that's as far as I made it I'm sure the further you went down it was worse

[GanjaSmkinFreedomFtr]

I lived in Long Beach on Shelter Rock Rd me my brothers my sister her boyfriend and my mother had to swim out of our house b4 it was destroyed Im so sick and tired of people talking about New Orleans the residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast are the true survivors of Katrina not New Orleans and even to day 5 YEARS LATER we still arent half of what were were

[wesdeclement]

new orleans this new orleans that dude the hurricane didnt hit new orleans the levies failed!!!!! i was right in the middle of katrina in mississippi stuck at the hospital (i work there) for 5 days with no water or way to get to my family. i hate that everyone talks of new orleans all the time i guess no person in mississppi was affected by the hurricane, and also we from mississippi helped ourselves we waited on no one, like the helpless s.o.b. from new orleans!!!!!!!

[kickrocks94]

Biloxi, Mississippi was my first home in america. even though i was only 11 when hurricane katrina happened. it still has a great effect one me. i was to young to grasp the financial problems from it but i wasnt to young to not understand losing friends and a home. my family didnt evacuate and we watched as our house fell to pieces. luckily god got us out alive. i still miss biloxi but i now dont take anything for granted.

[TheGreatMp3]

I lived in Ocean Springs Mississippi for about 11 years. me and my Family Evacuated for hurricane Katrina but my Aunt did not. when her Complex closed the doors and told her to leave she had nowhere to go but to our House behind the Super Walmart. Luckily due to the Wal*Mart my home took Minimal damage and she Survived. Later that week when we got back to where her complex should have been we found Nothing left. Everything she owned was Gone. I just thank god that we did not loose her aswel

[MrBregan]

Me and my whole family floated on debris off 90 next to lynn meadows discovery center, our house collapsed around us and nobody got hurt except my big brother, even our 3 dogs made it. that is my mom at :16

[HistoryBoy23]

the mississippi gulf coast has been my home my entire life. i would never abandon it just because some destructive hurricane rips through. i remember listening to the strong, intense winds blowing outside. it almost sounded like our roof was about to come off. this is one catastrophe i will never forget.

[aleexxxm]

i'm glad alive, but i lived in diamondhead and where i lived we weren't so pose to get any water, but we got like 8 feet of water

[Cgold93]

I have lived in Ocean Springs all my life and the hardest thing I've ever had to do was come home to.. well nothing. I thank God every day that I'm still alive and for everyone who volunteered. Nobody could've done it without both those two.

[kimmarie801]

It is amazing how anybody survived Katrina. Look at the mass distruction and yet there are survivors. It is amazing to me how there was any life left at all after this catastraphy. Americans kick ass!!!

[treadz75]

My parents lost everything to that bitch. Thank you to all who helped them. God bless the people of the Gulf Coast. I have never seen so many helping hands with mouths that only opened to console others or to pray to the almighty!

[jsnasselin]

My wife, 2 boys and myself lived in outer gulfport on Big Creek Road, we moved the spring before the storm. My father in law stayed during the storm- 3 blocks inland from the biloxi light house. Thankyou Chris for this awesome reality of Mother Earth and her destuctive forces. Screw the Gov. for their "Dee Dee Dee" delayed help. How hard would it have been to do MASSIVE air drops to the desparate people along the coast? Here it is 2 years later and I'm still upset.

[davispmd]

What a well done video.

[Chrome6stringer]

Nice video. My mother 64, lost her home and business c/o Katrina. Today, 3/17/07, She is $335,000 in debt to the SBA. She has not gotten payment from State Farm No money from FEMA. All of the Homeowners Grant money is being stolen by the State, my mom made the SBA loan, but now she has to sell the house she built with the SBA loan because she cant afford the $1400.00 note. I wish the rest of the world could know just how sad it is here.

[narri214]

i know how u feel even though my family and my self live away from the gulf, my mom and i went down to help a year ago in boloxi and pascagula and met some people with similar problems i want to go back and helpjust wanted u to know people do know and care and some are coming to the gulf coast to help