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...Within weeks of the shift ashore, new casino players like the Golden Nugget bought land in Biloxi for casino development. Harrah's Casino, owner of the destroyed Grand Casinos in Gulfport and Biloxi, sold its Gulfport location, moved everything to Biloxi and bought out a smaller casino for future expansion. And, the crown jewel of coast casinos - the huge Beau Rivage in Biloxi - announced a massive renovation beyond its Katrina damage. It plans to observe the one-year anniversary of the storm with a grand reopening to salute returning employees...
...other subterranean resources that hold up the surface. Now, many experts warn, with greenhouse gases raising global temperatures, we are spawning more and deadlier hurricanes, ones that could kill a city in a single blow--if Katrina hasn't already done that to New Orleans, Gulfport and Biloxi...
...sitting in bags in New Orleans is salvageable or whether the roasting equipment, possibly submerged in contaminated water, can be saved. That's troublesome for small roasters and for giants like Procter & Gamble, which closed its Folgers plant in New Orleans just before the hurricane. Bananas destined for Gulfport, Miss., are being diverted to other ports, with Chiquita sending boats to Freeport, Texas, and Port Everglades, Fla. "If volume is affected, our customers will have to raise prices," says Chiquita spokesman Michael Mitchell. At least hot-sauce fans can rest assured: Avery Island, La.--based McIlhenny, maker of Tabasco sauce...
When the Betz family first settled into a condo in Sandestin--with Albert, a commercial insurance broker, staying in Gulfport, Miss., to keep working--school caused immediate problems. A few days after the kids were enrolled in the suddenly overcrowded local school, they learned they would be bused to a different one 25 miles away, arriving late to that school and leaving early every day. Packed like crayfish on the road for an hour, they were loath to do homework...
...Gulfport, Biloxi, Orange Beach: these Southern towns were all the same. A day later I sped through Alabama, farther north, farther from the place I had come to call home...