We should be prepared to have folks in our community for up to a year and a half, ... It's hard to know when parts of New Orleans and Biloxi, (Miss.), will be rebuilt.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency, its top ranks filled by political appointees and its budget hit by deep cuts, seemed unable to grasp the magnitude of the disaster. On the day after the storm, FEMA director Michael Brown met in Biloxi, Miss., with Gov. Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, and told him not to worry, because FEMA had had lots of hurricane practice in Florida. I don't think you've seen anything like this, ... We're talking nuclear devastation.
While the news media has largely focused on New Orleans, Biloxi and Mobile, there are lots and lots and lots of rural communities where you have populations of maybe 30 to 100 people that we haven't even talked about yet,
I was just frustrated at stuff going on in Biloxi, ... I figured it was a good opportunity. I thought if I could succeed at a top-notch school like St. Andrew's in academics, I'd be ready for college.
We had to make sure we got the right mix of genres and decades to suit all demographics and tastes. We want each Hard Rock Biloxi guest to feel like there is something they can identify with. There is something for everyone whether a local or tourist, young or slightly more mature.
We're still going with the official count from last night, 40 in Biloxi. But that's going to be very low.
We have a lot of families in Gulfport and Biloxi, and obviously we have a lot of family down in New Orleans. We're really sensitive to that. With our program, family comes first and we're going to take care of these young men.
The Back Bay of Biloxi came through our front door,
It was so painful to thumb through that book and see pictures of houses in Biloxi and Gulfport and know that those houses are no longer there.
The US Central Command Air Forces is sending 300 Active Duty and Air Force Reserve Airmen home who were assigned to Keesler Air Force Base (in Biloxi, Mississippi) so they can attend to their families' needs after Hurricane Katrina,
I've played in Biloxi (Miss.) many times. I'm just glad we can do a little something for those people's lives that will never be the same again for many, many years. God bless them.
Restoring the Biloxi Lighthouse Fishing Dock and the Small Craft Harbor will help bring back some beauty and enjoyment to this great city.
The thing that kills people isn't so much the wind, ... It's the storm surge. I'm worried that on that peninsula that sticks out into the ocean, there's going to be grave loss of life. There are a lot of stubborn Cajuns down there who will say, We've never evacuated before,' and they're going to be on their rooftops. I'm really worried about Gulfport and Biloxi, (Miss.), too.'
It was just plain good luck for the Biloxi and New Orleans areas, ... It meant that Katrina definitely came ashore much weaker than many had feared and many of us were forecasting.
Here in Mobile, it's bad, very bad. Thousands without power, people fighting for petrol, literally. We did not fare as badly as Gulfport, Biloxi or New Orleans, but there are towns totally obliterated, gone.
They made it to Biloxi, Miss. It was absolutely wiped out. If you flattened two rows of Palm Beach mansions, that's what it would look like, ... I had the four-wheel-drive on because the ocean highway washed away.