"Prayers for the folks in NO and Mississippi."
Glad you remembered Mississippi...they're getting somewhat lost in the shuffle in most accounts. So sad to see such destruction in such history-rich, beautiful places and to so many good people.
Having visited Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis's home, right on the ocean in Biloxi, MS, a year or so after Camille, I'm hoping it may somehow have survived this, too, but it the odds are against it, I guess.
Just the loss of all the huge, magnificent live oaks makes my West Texas heart ache. Structures can be rebuilt...but
those trees are irreplaceable.
I still can't wrap my brain around just how catestrophic this has been.
I had no idea the situation would get worse after the hurricane was done.
Hate to be the bearer, but there is another thread that says it is gone.
I was Biloxi a few months ago and went to the little public beach next to the casinos, sat a bench,looked around, and thought about how terrible it must have been when Camille hit.I can't believe it's happened again.
magnificent live oaks
Just an aside. Why is it up here in the northlands when we talk about oak trees we just say oak trees but in the south oak is usually preceeded by the word "live?"
The only time we up north discuss the mortality of an oak is when it is dead.