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. I asked one of the guys at Branson where I could get some good food in Memphis: ribs, perhaps, with some greens and other fixin's. "BB King's," he said, "you gotta stop there." Stop I did; it was late when I got there. It did give me some pause to pay a cover charge to get in the bar where the live band was playing (and where they served the ribs). That took me back a few years. But the ribs and greens were excellent, and the band wasn't too bad, either..
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Stopped over to visit friends at Free Church of the Annunciation in New Orleans, then on to Mississippi.
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While the flooded Annunciation church would someday be re-occupied, all that was left of Christ Church in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi was the steeple that formerly sat on top of the church building.
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. This scene is Highway 90 approaching Pearlington, Mississippi. At the left is a red tugboat, and at the right is a blue tugboat, both stranded by Hurricane Katrina along the highway. These boats were left behind five miles from the nearest open water. .
. Three major bridges along Highway 90 were wiped out. The span leading east from New Orleans across the Mississippi Sound lies in ruins still today. The next span, from Bay St. Louis to Pass Christian, was also swept away, but has recently been reopened. The photo above is the Biloxi Bay bridge as it appeared in July '06; it is currently under construction. .
. These photos above and below show the state of rental housing almost one year after Katrina. Some teardown of these ruined complexes has now begun, but to-date no significant rental housing complexes have been rebuilt. Construction completed or underway today is almost exclusively pricey condominiums. .
. If you were fortunate enough to own land, you could obtain a FEMA trailer and set it up on your property. Those who lived in rental housing or condo's were consigned to FEMA ghettos such as this one below, on land nobody wanted situated miles from shops and services. This one sits alongside a lonely stretch of Highway 190. .
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Volunteers from God'sKatrina Kitchen fanned out into the community helping homeowners to clean up, gut out, and rebuild their ruined homes. But you didn't need to be a homeowner, and you didn't have to prove anything to anybody in order to get a smile and a meal in the red-striped dining tent. Here you could find everyone from yacht club members to long-term homeless and drifters. In the early days after the hurricane there was simply nowhere else to eat. The Kitchen served upwards of 1,000 meals per day from this tent in Pass Christian. ..
.Next post: The Calling Made Sure.
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