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Tommorrow at 6am THEINCREDIBLEdork, DJ FC, Jmoney, and Gnasty and TEAM MANGO depart on the greatest adventure of all time as we travel to Boloxi Mississipi to help Negros and fight hurricanes. Apparantly its martial law down there, and we're staying in a military base. So there is at least a 36% chance of one of us getting shot. If I get shot I'm going to start my own rap group called Fuck You Motherfucker. If we get back alive there will probably be story to spurn so stay tuned... |
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In many ways Biloxi is in a worse state than New Orleans. | |
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What a trip.
I really can't explain too well how bad the area actually was. For miles, every single building was completely destroyed, and this is nearly 4 months after the hurricane. Entire buildings 10-20 stories high (mainly riverboat casinos) were moved miles from their original locations. I cannot explain how frightening it is to see an enormous casino sitting in the middle of a city block nearly half a mile from it's original location. What used to be blocks of houses is now nothing but piles of rubble, bricks, wood, branches, leaves, glass, personal possessions, furniture, just a dump. It was as if somebody had bombed the entire area. Every building completely destroyed, everything abandoned and quiet. It was eerie. I have a few pictures I took on my camera phone, but they do not give the Biloxi, MS area any justice. Imagine the worst devastation you've seen in a war movie (like the final scene in Saving Private Ryan), the condition of the area was worse than that. ID being goofy in our makeshift cabin/tent in "Tent City": ![]() ID and JMoney making use of a bridge accross a pile of mud in "Tent City": ![]() ID trying on his work gloves (these were very much needed): ![]() GNasty sporting the mask (the military made us wear these - there was lots of bacteria in the area): ![]() Thousands of houses looked just like this or worse: ![]() There was nothing you wouldn't expect to find in the rubble under someone's house: ![]() Everywhere you went, the "ground" was actually piles of boards, bricks, and other building materials: ![]() Closer to the gulf, mud covered nearly everything. This is a huge uprooted tree: ![]() [ December 22, 2005, 03:30 PM: Message edited by: DJ FC ] |
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Miles and miles of houses looked just like this:
![]() Commercial buildings weren't safe either: ![]() Many buildings had been allready gutted, everything from the lower floors removed: ![]() This used to be McDonald's: ![]() This used to be IHOP: ![]() Casinos: ![]() ![]() Complete Destruction: ![]() |
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Our job was partially to go into these sites and clean them up:
![]() Every site looked pretty much like this, a pile of rubble several (sometimes even more than 10) feet deep under which we would find a house's foundation: ![]() JMoney being friendly: ![]() JMoney being not so friendly: ![]() This isn't easy to see, but underneith a pile of rubble we found what was either a dead dog or a dead deer (nobody felt like inspecting it close enough to make a certain determination - but from the shape of the leg my guess is deer): ![]() Schoolbuses took a lot of damage, some of them were found far away in ditches: ![]() ID "driving" a schoolbus: ![]() Pontiac GTO in a swimming pool: ![]() |
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As we were walking along one pile of rubble, we looked down and realized that we were walking on boards that were laying ontop of a convertable:
![]() Me standing on the roof of a house: ![]() Another shot of the roof: ![]() Me in front of a swimming pool - just visible over the surface is the roof of a minivan: ![]() 5 of the 200 students in our group, riding along the gulf coast in the bed of a pickup truck (which is legal in Mississippi): ![]() Cool kid that JMoney, ID, GNasty, and I met on our trip: ![]() The man who put the whole thing together, he works for Hope Crisis Network in Elkhart, IN: ![]() At the end of every hard day, either a bus or an IU Suburban would come and pick us up to take us back to "Tent City": ![]() On this page you can see a video of what it was like [ December 22, 2005, 04:02 PM: Message edited by: DJ FC ] |
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Pretty much how I remember Mississippi last time I passed through there when there was no hurricane. That bus may have been some nigro's lawn ornament.
Edit: It's December 22, 2005, the second day of winter and you folks have no coat on in many pics. Nice isn't it? [ December 22, 2005, 04:21 PM: Message edited by: angry pancake ] |
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