melissa schilling

dances with katrina

I am convinced that you can find beauty in anything. You just have to know where to look.
Even when the glass is 99% empty, you gotta appreciate that one teensy drop left in the cup.

These pictures were made by a man in Magee, MS (where the eye of the storm passed thru). Magee is 150
miles North of Waveland, Mississippi where the Hurricane made initial landfall.

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.

Thank you to Dawn of MSbehavin Nation for sharing these photos and the story.

Posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 9:17 pm. Filed under: The Nature Gallery Tags: clouds, hurricane, katrina, Nature, sky art RSS 2.0 feed.