[BurbankKarl]

The 1971 "Ocean Warwick" - a Diamond Offshore jackup rig - sits 100 yards from the beach with remnants of beach houses on Dauphin Island, Ala., seen in this aerial view.

Remnants of beach houses on Dauphin Island, Ala., seen in this aerial view. Dauphin Island, a vacation and weekend retreat off the Mobile County coast, has a population of about 1,200 and was mostly deserted during the hurricane.

The Biloxi-Ocean Springs bridge damage along U.S. Highway 90 in Biloxi, Mississippi

Rooftops and bare foundations sit surrounded by the debris of damaged and destroyed homes and businesses in Biloxi, Mississippi.

[nwctwx]

I wonder how people can look at this type of damage and question what might have happened.

[dixiechick2000]

Thank you, Karl, for this post, and for all of the news you have posted here.

Please read my last post.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473894/posts?page=239#239

[advance_copy]

That kind of damage would not occur without massive loss of life. I fear that this report from the phone conversation that My_Favorite_Headache had with an EMS worker in Gulfport is all too horribly accurate.