WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: Katrina: One Year Later: "Katrina killed 231 people in Mississippi and wiped away whole communities. Stately homes that once fronted the beach and apartments blocks inland were swept away by a wall of storm surge that gutted glitzy casinos and propelled several of the hulking barges ashore.
A year later, most of the debris is gone and humid air is filled with sounds of recovery.
On the town green in Biloxi about 500 yards from the shore, several hundred people gathered among live oak trees for a commemoration service.
'The sun is shining on us today and you know a year ago, we would've been treading water right here,'' said U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., who commended state and local officials for their part in the recovery efforts."
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
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