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...western edge of the Mississippi coast, where Katrina lifted the ocean up and deposited barges in the middle of neighborhoods, every police car is gone. The towns of Bay St. Louis and Waveland are all but wiped off the map. Every government building in Hancock County has been destroyed. Half of the local work force has no house to go home to. A firefighter who had recovered remains from the World Trade Center crater told me picking through the 12-foot-high piles of flotsam stacked a quarter mile inland along the Mississippi coast is like working at ground zero...
BREAKFAST Waveland Cafe, 4708 University Ave. This popular greasy spoon with eggs, sausage, hash browns and pancakes is worth the wait...
...powerful-polluters Al Baker on a satellite phone. Last seen in 1995 kayaking in the South Pacific to heckle French nuclear testers, he's now calling from this British flyspeck, Rockall Island, 300 miles west of Scotland. Greenpeace last week declared Rockall the independent, though mostly virtual, nation of Waveland (Website: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk passports available) to stop oil exploration in the surrounding sea. The weather is good, says Baker, which means that waves are not as high as the 60-ft. height of Waveland, though that's not always the case. There are lots of whales and dolphins to watch...
...Golden Voice of the Cubs, who fills Chi-town airways with "Hey Hey!!!, that ball is out on Waveland Avenue, heading downtown...
...Bureau reckoning, Camille was the most violent storm ever to strike the U.S. The hurricane's fury-210-m.p.h. winds and waves up to 22 ft. high-fell most savagely upon the Delta parish of Plaquemines, La., and a 35-mile shorefront strip of Mississippi from Pascagoula to Waveland. Both areas remain a jumble of devastation. Hundreds of homes, motels and other business establishments stand roofless or without walls. Uprooted trees, torn chunks of pavement and twisted iron fences bestrew the roadsides. Some families are living in tents on their front lawns...