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JAMES EDWARD BATES/SUN HERALD
Downtown, north of Hard Rock Casino, (looking south) in Biloxi, Miss., on August 30, 2005, the morning after Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast. At the bottom of the photo is Howard Ave.; at right, Main St.; at top is U. S. 90 and the Hard Rock Casino parking garage at top right.