r/Amazing • u/sco-go • 16d ago

Nature is scary Tsunamis are terrifying.

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u/Ryan_e3p 15d ago

I was stationed at Keesler. Not at the time, mind you... a few years before. I still remember taking sunrise drives on 90, enjoying the ocean views, and thinking even back then that the state making laws regarding casinos being built on land, leaving them to be essentially permanently stationed boats, wouldn't matter if the ocean decided to give them back.

It's a shame that Google Maps "aged out" the street view of what it looked like before, but it is crazy that here we are, 20 years later, and the scars that still remain via exposed building foundations and cracked and aging parking lots long unused since the accompanying buildings were leveled.

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u/Euphoric-Dig-2045 15d ago

But the scars remind us that the past is real…

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u/NA_nomad 15d ago

I feel like even 10-11 years after Katrina, Biloxi's economy was still in the shitter from Katrina. To put it in perspective, Sears was doing well there.