[Charles Martel]

All that lumber .. my God .. wind and water simply deconstructed those properties !
Anyone with sense knows that even the best homes aren't forever, but to be taken apart stick by stick and piled up like so many boxes of spaghetti

Indeed - some of the aerial photos of the Katrina "debris line" are amazing. That photo in the previous thread is up close (and I have an acquaintance who lost a house on one of those very streets); the following photo shows where a lot of the lumber ended up - washed a half-mile or more inland. It would've probably gone further, if not for the railroad tracks that were built up and run parallel to the beach road. Between the rail line and the beach, the town of Waveland was pretty much erased in 2005.

[janetjanet998]

recon in there now..pressure is up some again..still weakening

[Black Agnes]

https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/Katrinas_surge_part01.asp

part one of a multi part discussion w. pics and maps of katrina’s surge.

[ncalburt]

Waveland was a sad place after Katrina .
People died needlessly there .
My wife's family lost a second home nearby on Pass Christian.
Nothing was left to salvage.

[tomkat]

That’s truly awe inspiring, in the truest sense of the word.
I’ve been around some tornadoes and some pretty serious thunderstorms, but nothing like that.
Thanks for the reply, pic, and recollection .. stuff like that is what makes NN’s ‘cane threads so great !