All of these pictures were taken in Coden and Bayou La Batre. Many, even those living in Alabama, don't realize the damage that was done so close to home.
All these boats jumbled together gives
a bit of an idea of how powerful the
surge of the hurricane was.

This picture is what was left
from a house that once sat
on the "Coden Bayou".

Only hours after the winds
and rain stopped, this is
how the inside of my childhood
church looked.

All that is left of this house,
is the front!
If you look really close the boat on the right
side of the picture was carrying cars,
and it was beached by the storm.
The pictures above are of the same area. The picture on the left is taken at about 10 AM, the morning of the storm, before the winds fully died down. The picture on the right was taken over a year after the storm. It shows some construction they are trying to do to this part of the Coden Bayou.
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