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January 27, 2006
Stephanie Morgan, 19, of Hattiesburg, Miss. surveys Hurricane Katrina damage on the U.S. 90 bridge Wednesday afternoon in Biloxi, Miss. About 100 miles of U.S. Highway 90 between Pascagoula, Miss. and New Orleans were destroyed by Katrina. Katrina's devastation still evident in BiloxiMuch of this Gulf Coast city lays in ruins
Kim Freche keeps an eye on her two dogs while caring for 5-month-old grandson Elijah Mills at a FEMA trailer park for Biloxi city employees. 
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Morgan, 19, traveled downstate from Hattiesburg and, like many recent visitors, gravitated toward the collapsed causeway that until Aug. 29 carried cars between Ocean Springs and Biloxi, a city of 50,000 situated directly on the Gulf Coast. "People up our way think it's bad, but they don't have it bad at all," Morgan said. Steel supports inside the concrete precariously unite dismembered bridge fragments, and a few intrepid sightseers ventured out onto the rubble to record the imposing image on film. The broken overpass overlooks Point Cadet Plaza, a now-ramshackle venue that long hosted seafood festivals. The area also is home to the Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum, which Katrina gutted to its frame. John Underwood, 37, a lifelong Biloxi native, strolled past the toppled "Golden Fisherman," a bronze sculpture the city commissioned 30 years ago to pay tribute to Biloxi's seafood trade. Katrina knocked the monument off its pedestal, but the sculpture's feet remain planted in concrete. Underwood, whose grandfather worked as a shrimper, worries about the fishing industry's future. "I don't know what's going to happen," he said. "I'm hoping it comes back." Paul Morgan, Stephanie's father, lived through Hurricane Camille in 1969 and remembers that it merely warped the Biloxi-Ocean Springs bridge. "Camille was just water," he said. "This here covered three states." The elder Morgan said Katrina wiped out more than bridges, buildings and businesses. "The history is gone," he said.
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