![]() He said officials were advising residents to boil water, because of damage to water lines and treatment plants.īiloxi resident Harriet Leckich told CNN "nothing was recognizable" when she returned to her home. He noted that number was expected to rise as more people are rescued from their flooded homes. Your visit would be very good for the morale of Mississippians who are hurting right now." SurvivorsĪs of Monday, at least 12,200 people were in shelters across the southern portion of the state, said MEMA public information officer Mick Bullock. Lott thanked Bush for his disaster declaration for Mississippi, saying, "I urge you to come to Mississippi. She rode out the storm in their house in Jackson. The senator's wife, Tricia, told him the news Monday night. "They plan to go out to see if they can recover any valuables." "He's been told there's nothing left," she said. A friend had boarded it up ahead of the hurricane's arrival Monday, said spokeswoman Susan Irby. Trent Lott's 154-year-old oceanfront residence in Pascagoula, according to a spokeswoman from his office. Lott's home destroyedĪmong the thousands of homes destroyed was Mississippi Sen. A smaller shipyard in Gulfport is believed to have suffered even more extensive damage, company spokesman Brian Cullin said. ![]() In Pascagoula, defense contractor Northrop Grumman's shipyard - the state's largest employer with 12,000 workers - reported serious flooding. I haven't seen one structure that's livable." "There is no building standing within the first three blocks. "I've been from one end of the city to the other and looked down towards the beach, and it is absolutely devastated," Notter said. In Long Beach, west of Gulfport, Alderman Richard Notter said it could take the town years to rebuild. Meanwhile, looting was reported to be a problem there and in Biloxi, officials said. ![]() Part of the city's sea wall was washed away, and nearly every downtown building had extensive damage to its first level. A nearby Coast Guard station was destroyed, a firefighter said. Gulfport, known as a major terminal for banana imports, was strewn with Dole and Chiquita trucks. President Bush declared a major disaster across the state on Monday, making federal money available for recovery efforts. ( Watch the video of boats stacked in the forests - 3:02) Highway 90, which was underwater Tuesday.Įastbound lanes of Interstate 10 between Gulfport and Biloxi were also impassable because of debris dumped on the road by the storm. Many of the state's waterfront casinos are along U.S. "There were 10- and 20-block areas where there was nothing - not one home standing," he said. And he said there was "enormous damage" to Belvoir, the Biloxi home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which survived Camille with little damage. Katrina destroyed "every one" of the casinos that raked in a half-million dollars per day to state coffers, Barbour said. ( View the video of waves claiming Mississippi shores - 3:11) Highway 90 Monday, after it came ashore at Buras, Louisiana, as a Category 4 hurricane. Katrina drove a 25-foot wall of water over the beaches of southern Mississippi and into the towns along U.S. Residents who have returned to their homes were calling to report bodies or were bringing them to funeral homes, he said.Īnd in Biloxi, emergency crews fear 30 people died in an apartment complex on the beach when the building collapsed in the storm. Jason Green, of the Harrison County Coroner's Office, said funeral homes in Gulfport had received 26 bodies since the storm passed. ( See video of the rubble Katrina stacked on Bay St. Louis, search and rescue crews marked with red paint homes known to contain bodies, because there weren't enough refrigerated trucks to remove the corpses, said CNN's Gary Tuchman. Haley Barbour, after touring the affected areas of his state by helicopter. "There are structures after structures that survived Camille with minor damage that are not there any more," said Gov. BILOXI, Mississippi (CNN) - Hurricane Katrina has inflicted more damage to Mississippi's beach towns than Hurricane Camille did, and its death toll is likely to be higher, the state's governor said Tuesday.Ĭamille killed 143 people when it struck the state's coastal counties in 1969 and left a total of 256 dead after it swept inland.
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