Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans are forever fused together in the hearts and minds of all America. But Hurricane Katrina and Biloxi? or Gulfport? Not so much. One of the many strange, inexplicable socio-political-economic phenomena surround Hurricane Katrina's impact on the Gulf Coast is that the devastation of the entire Mississippi coast barely reads as a blip on the national consciousness. What few outside the region remember five years following the storm is that it was the flood after the storm that destroyed New Orleans. In Mississippi -- it was the direct, full force of the storm, the largest ocean surge in recorded history, that struck dead center on its shoreline. Ricky Mathews, Publisher of South Mississippi's Sun Herald news paper discusses the recovery and the role his newspaper and staff played in the recovery of the region.
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