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Rising From Katrina

How My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and Found What Mattered /

by Kathleen Koch
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Hurricane Katrina left Eddie Favre, the affable mayor of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, with nothing but the shirt and shorts he was wearing. State and local officials offered to send him pants, but Favre declined. “Wearing long pants sends a signal that everything is okay,” he insisted. “And until such time as everything is okay here, I’ll wear my shorts.” Even George W. Bush took notice. “I arrive here at this important school and he’s got short pants on,” the president remarked during a visit nearly five months after the storm. “Eddie, I like a man who sticks to his guns.” Those who read this moving story of the small town of Bay St. Louis and the Mississippi Gulf Coast will discover an entire region that did just that. The 2005 hurricane season was the most devastating in history. People from the Bahamas to Mexico to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida suffered a record 15 hurricanes, four of which reached Category 5 strength.

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