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This book reveals the fullest bill yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Seacoast. Rooted in a wealth of dental histories, it instructs the dramatic but underreported storyline of an people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the attention wall membrane and powerful northeast quadrant of the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across a seventy-five-mile stretch of unprotected Mississippi cities and cities. Wayne Patterson Smith needs us through life and loss of life accounts of storm day, August 29, 2005, and the precarious days of food and water shortages that adopted. On the way the narrative treats us to motivating episodes of neighborly compassion and creative replies to the best natural disaster in American history.The heroes of the saga are the local people and local officials. In often moving accounts, the e book addresses the Mississippi Gulf Coast's long battle to remove a record-setting level of debris and can get on with the rebuilding of homes, classes, jobs, and public infrastructure. On the way readers are offered insights into the politics of restoration financing and the bureaucratic bungling and hubris that afflicted the storm response and complicated and postponed the task of restoration. Still, there are enough accounts of things done well, and a moving chapter gives us a feel for the subconscious, spiritual, and material impact of the eight hundred thousand folks from across the land who gave of themselves as volunteers in the Mississippi restoration effort.The e book is printed by University Press of Mississippi
