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Article: Story of the year? Surviving Hurricane Katrina.(Focus)
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 19, 2005
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It was the worst natural disaster in the nation's history.
On the morning of August 29, Hurricane Katrina struck Mississippi a grievous blow. Even though the 30-mile-wide eye of the Category 4 storm made landfall at the Mississippi-Louisiana line, the hurricane completely devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast, from Pearlington to Pascagoula. Its impact extended more than 200 miles inland with hurricane force winds.
"The miles upon miles of utter destruction is unimaginable, except to those who have witnessed it with their own eyes, on the ground," said Gov. Haley Barbour. "In her wake, Katrina left literally tens of thousands of uninhabitable, often ...