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DIED. R.L. BURNSIDE, 78, ex-sharecropper and Mississippi blues master who first found fame in the 1990s with the documentary Deep Blues and his recordings for Fat Possum Records, based in Oxford, Miss.; in Memphis. His raw, unrehearsed sound soon drew a cadre of mostly white, alt-rock admirers, some of whom, like Jon Spencer, became collaborators; one of Burnside's pioneering 1998 blues-techno tunes, It's Bad You Know, was later featured on TV's The Sopranos...
...sick, was a disgrace. The problem with putting it all into numbers is that they stop speaking clearly once they get too big: an estimated half a million refugees, a million people without power, 30,000 soldiers, up to $100 billion in damage. "This is our tsunami," said Biloxi, Miss., Mayor A.J. Holloway. The overstatement is forgivable, for at some point suffering becomes immeasurable, reduced to a hopeless search for a place to sleep, or a bottle of water or a body to bury...
...streets in storm surges as high as 25 ft. "It was like the houses were playing bumper cars around here," said Biloxi fisherman Alan Layne. There were cemetery coffins tossed around the beach, and disemboweled slot machines, and boats perched up in trees like ridiculous overweight birds. In Gulfport, Miss., the sea-salty air smelled of corpses. At one Catholic church, only the foundation remained--and a sign that read MASS AT 9 A.M. BRING A CHAIR...
John Padgett, a boat captain in Pass Christian, Miss., who runs supplies to the off-coast oil rigs, saw his cottage disappear. But he was able to throw his dogs, a tent, a sleeping bag and a Coleman stove and lantern into his pickup before the storm arrived. He's living in the woods just north of Gulfport off Highway 49. "Everything I own now is in that truck," he told TIME, "but the shelters are too overcrowded and uncomfortable. I was born and raised on this coast, so I'm a good little redneck...
Opportunity and desperation make a flammable mix. All along the coast, people broke into parked cars to siphon gas. Police reported that a man in Hattiesburg, Miss., shot his sister in the head in a fight over a bag of ice. A rescue team from Texas that had ferried hundreds of people to safety in their flat-bottom boats were told by a New Orleans sheriff that unless they were armed, they should get out of the city. At one point, rescuer Randy White says, "Someone yelled...