Waveland / Bay St. Louis Destruction

We have a camp in Bay St. Louis (just south of Kiln, north of Waveland). It was originally built by my grandfather before hurricane Camille. It made it through Camille, but didn't fair as well through Katrina. My younger brother Andrew had fixed the camp up nicely and was living there at the time.



I found this satellite picture of the area on the NOAA website.
North is actually to the right in the picture. Our camp is on a corner lot and is kinda obstructed by trees. Of note is our neighbor's trailer that blew into the bayou, and a boat in the middle of the road.








Here is our neighbor's trailer. It should be in the lot with the fence in the foreground. Instead it ended up across the bayou half on a dock and half in someone's yard.







This is where the trailer should have been. Mud is everywhere.








Here is our camp as seen from the driveway (there is the trailer in the background). Tall pines fell and caught the stairs and balcony. Somehow the roof got ripped open and lots of stuff got sucked out in the wind.




Panning left, several tall pines fell across the bayou.









What is left of the balcony. Andrew did had it nicely screened in.









The balcony.







The main room inside.









Back outside, more tall pines fell over the bayou.








The mailbox out front, at one time filled with mud.







Leaving the dead-end of our road, this neighbor had built a steel-grate ramp to park his vehicled on during floods. I think Andrew told me the water still got too high and his vehicles and boats floated away.





Leaving, we see the boat in the road from the satellite picture.








Around that boat and looking further down, another boat in the street. We take a left here to get out.







After taking a left and looking behind us, a house has somehow ended up in the middle of the road. Andrew said they had to cut it in half to clear the road for traffic.





The camp is structurally unsound, and we are now deciding what we will do. I would like to rebuild (and insure), as the camp has been around for as long as I've been alive. Now that I have my own kids, I want them to be able to have fun there and memories just like I have. A nice corner lot with it's own boat ramp is a great getaway.

-Matthew