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Gulf Coast News Recovery Report

nobody@vox.com(SandyU) — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:35:05 -0400

I ran across this website, which has loads of details about the current state of recovery efforts along the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Biloxi, Gulfport, etc). Also see my "Mississippi" tags.

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Vox Hunt: I Don't Get It

nobody@vox.com(SandyU) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:39:06 -0500

Show us something you don't understand. OK - here's the beautiful Beau Rivage casino in Biloxi, MS - rebuilt to surpass its former glory within a few short months after Hurricane Katrina. Total Biloxi casino revenues during the month of December...

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Miss Janie's house post-Katrina

nobody@vox.com(SandyU) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:30:00 -0500

Aha! I just found that one of the photos I had of the kitchen shows the photos Miss Janie had hanging on the wall. So I zoomed and cropped, and here you can sort of see the big dredge pipe, and if your eyes are very good, you can see the photos...

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Miss Janie's house

nobody@vox.com(SandyU) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:00:00 -0500

Our work papers said the house belonged to an elderly woman named Jamie. When we arrived, we met an elderly gentleman who started to show Dave (our fearless leader) where things were left after the last crew, so I guessed that the paper was wrong...

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Biloxi - over 2 YEARS after Katrina

nobody@vox.com(SandyU) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:45:00 -0500

Our bus took us through Gulfport and Biloxi, along the beachfront, so we could see the progress, or lack thereof, that's been made since we were here a year ago. See for yourself. I apologize for the quality of the photos, as they were taken fr...

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Voluntourism

nobody@vox.com(SandyU) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:10:16 -0500

An interesting article in USA Today about Katrina volunteers... [Please let me know if this link breaks, and I'll post a copy]

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Biloxi - 17 months after Katrina

nobody@vox.com(SandyU) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:00:00 -0500

On Monday after we ate lunch at Camp Victor, we all loaded into the coach bus for a tour of Gulfport and Biloxi. The purpose was to give us an idea of the scope of devastation and how things still are, since there isn't much destruction in evid...

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Mississippi work trip

nobody@vox.com(SandyU) — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:52:41 -0500

Well, our bags are packed and we're ready to go... on a 20-hour (+ Super Bowl stop) bus ride to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where we'll be spending a week helping people rebuild from Hurricane Katrina. From what we hear, there's still plenty of w...

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