"MPHS: Hurricane Katrina, 2005, By Tony Glenn
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Who: Tony Glenn What: Hurricane Katrina When: 2005 Where: Moss Point, Ms
Hurricane Katrina had a large influence on each and every person from Moss Point, Mississippi. Many houses were destroyed, pets lost, and family members died. Some people came back to nothing, while others returned to the empty shellof what once had been. For most people in Moss Point, some major loss was sustained.
Personally, my family lost nothing of value. The skirting on our trailor blew away, but nothing was lost that was not easily replaceable. We considered ourselves blessed to return home to our mobile home, which we had not expected to make it through the strong storm winds. We were even happier to find, that we had lost nothing of great value.
My grandparents, however, were not as blessed as we were. We arrived at their house to see a water-line five feet high on the outside wall of their home. Upon entering through the back door, we instanly witnessed the turmoil that had ravaged the building. The carpet, was covered in a thick layer of slimy mud, and all of the furnature in the house looked as though someone had ran around the room knocking it over.
We emerged into the living room to find that it had been devestated as well. The furnature was lying all over the floor and the front door had been shoved open by the water as it rushed its way into the house. The walls were swollen up to the line, four feet above the floor, were the water had sat inside the house. As we opened the cabinets, the pots and pans inside we full to the brim with water that stank with the smell of rotten eggs. Most of the dishes were covered with rust or mud of some kind.
Although we are not yet finished rebuilding. We have made it a long way since the distasterous occurence of Hurricane Katrina. Slowly, but surely, we are building back, to make things better than they were before. Already, those disasterous events seem to be apart of the distant past, as we prepare for a brighter tomorrow.
