In answer to Mom2five
The following picture was taken from the third story balcony of Saint
Stanislaus
College located next door to Our Lady of the Gulf church in Bay Saint
Louis,
Mississippi on the morning of August 29th, 2005.
This is believed to be the initial tidal wave from Hurricane Katrina.
The tidal wave
was approximately 35 to 40 feet high. When it slammed into the beach
front
communities of Bay Saint Louis and Waveland Mississippi to completely
destroy
99% of every structure along the beach for 9 miles and over a mile
inland.
The destruction only started there. The flooding that continued
inland destroyed
the contents of all but 35 homes in these two communities of
approximately
14,000 people.
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Upstate NY and The Villages-If your not living on the edge, your taking up way too much room."