A Year Later a Victim of the Katrina Disaster Says Don’t Forget The Other Gulf Coast
I urge you to read the comment following my commentary on Katrina yesterday. Joe McDermott is a victim of the other crisis in the Gulf — the sea’s destruction of communities along the entire Mississippi Coasts.
Several years ago I joined my brothers for a weekend trip trip to Gulfport and Biloxi,our second to the area. Mississippi is a poor state but it has riches of natural resources including a dramatic seascape of white sand beaches and lush trees. Every afternoon I would walk the beachfront and notice the lack of break fronts, and the vulnerability of the communities.
Eight months later the hotel we stayed in was washed away.
McDermott’s letter is a reaffirmation of the human spirit in those communities, often forgotten with the focus shining so brightly on New Orleans,
