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From the Sun Herald:
The Hard Rock Casino on Casino Row in Biloxi, which was scheduled to open next week, will have to be rebuilt. The superstructure was severely damaged.
There have been reports that there are several casino barges that were pulled out of water and onto land.
In Biloxi at Edgewater Village, most of that shopping strip mall was devastated. The McDonald's is gone, the Village Sports Pub is gone. (I frequented this area every weekend last year.....)
At DeBuys Road at U.S. 90., the Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants were obliterated. same here...
Part of U.S. 90 collapsed in front of Edgewater Village.
There have been reports of looters, and police will arrest people who are driving around, Biloxi Police Bruce Dunigan said.
Jeff Davis Avenue, the main street in Long Beach, showed a lot of heavy damage to buildings; many neighborhoods had trees and power lines down.
On Royal Drive in Long Beach, almnost every roof had decking exposed or ripped off the roof.
The Long Beach high school and middle school sustained little damaged, but the Church of Christ across the street had its newly replaced roof ripped off.
One longtime resident of Long Beach, Tim McCaffrey, said, ``Anything south of the railroad tracks was like Camille all over again.'' (in reference to the 1969 hurricane.)
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