Reconstruction in South Mississippi: Deja Vu All Over Again...

Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans are forever fused together in the hearts and minds of all America. But Hurricane Katrina and Biloxi? or Gulfport? Not so much. One of the many strange, inexplicable socio-political-economic phenomena surround Hurricane Katrina's impact on the Gulf Coast is that the devastation of the entire Mississippi coast barely reads as a blip on the national consciousness. What few outside the region remember five years following the storm is that it was the flood after the storm that destroyed New Orleans. In Mississippi -- it was the direct, full force of the storm, the largest ocean surge in recorded history, that struck dead center on its shoreline.

Ricky Mathews, Publisher of South Mississippi's Sun Herald news paper discusses the recovery and the role his newspaper and staff played in the recovery of the region.

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• Katrina
• South Mississippi
• Reconstruction
• Casinos
• Biloxi
• Gulfport
• Ricky Mathews
• Hurricane damage Recovery
• Sun Heraldld
• McClatchy Newspapers
• Haley Barbour
• Stan Tiner
• Gulf Coast
• Post-Katrina reconstruction
• New Orleans

[brandonisawesome11]

my aunt was in katrina in missisippi her roof was damaged

[JinniScience]

They should build a bunch of housboats in low lying areas. It will happen again, probably within our lifetime, if we all lived to be 100.

[mislouisianagirl101]

we lost our homes the only one we knew miss that old house even though it was not much

[mislouisianagirl101]

we lost our homes the only one we knew miss that old house even though it was not much

[lilbruce]

It still hurts 

[Smilies85]

I live in Mississippi, and this happened when i was 2 or 3 and I don't remember anything. So I am looking up what it was like. <3

[krazykmay]

so sad :'(

[ibbumpn]

Excellent. Thanks.

[flickchick808]

Excellent piece! We do have short attention spans and people have been left alone to deal with years of recovery out there. Too bad we don't see pieces like this on the six o'clock news!