![]() ![]() Wiley has published the works of more than 450 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace. has been a valued source of information and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. ![]() Our core businesses produce scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, reference works, books, database services, and advertising professional books, subscription products, certification and training services and online applications and education content and services including integrated online teaching and learning resources for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley is a global provider of content and content-enabled workflow solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research professional development and education. We conclude with a discussion exploring public policy and other implications of the disaster in a context of ever-increasing global, environmental, and social challenges. We examine how preexisting social trends were amplified, otherwise-latent social and cultural distinctions were exacerbated, and national resources and funds intended for broad-scale "recovery" were converted into instruments of capital formation and further concentration of wealth. We characterize some of the more salient human consequences across multiple sectors of the economy-including energy, finance, construction, housing, gaming, and commercial fisheries. Somewhat less predictable are the many social changes associated with the hurricane and public sector response to the event. The devastation was predicted, and absent massive and immediate action, the next major storm will inevitably produce additional disastrous outcomes. Todd Memorial High School, Poplarville’s African-American High School in the days of segregation, lost its roof.Storm surge and wind associated with Hurricane Katrina caused many deaths and the destruction of property and public infrastructure along the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. At Poplarville High School, every building suffered water damage and the gym and 13 of the 26 classrooms were unroofed. The buildings on the Pearl River Junior College campus sustained extensive damage with the girl’s dormitory, Batson Hall, declared a total loss. The Movie Star garment factory, Poplarville’s biggest employer, suffered major damage. Trees were down everywhere in both cities.” Most of the damage to homes consisted of “lost roofs, rain water, and falling trees.” So it makes sense that the Item reported, “Poplarville was much harder hit than Picayune with scarcely a building undamaged. As with most hurricanes, the highest winds were to the right of the track. The eye of Camille passed east of Picayune and over and just west of Poplarville. The story of that industry’s demise is so fascinating and complex that I will devote an entire column to it in a few weeks. There was almost complete destruction of the county’s tung nut orchards, which covered at least 40,000 acres. The Weather Bureau, in its special storm summary for Camille compiled in 1969, quoted the County Agent as saying that “85 percent or more of dairy barns in the country were either badly damaged or a complete loss.” There were many more dairy farms in Pearl River County in 1969 than today with nearly 40 farms reporting some dairy activity in the annual agricultural census. ![]() The Picayune Item also reported, “The pecan crop was entirely destroyed and many of the great pecan trees, thirty to fifty years old, were destroyed.” Ray Fowler was County Agent at the time and estimated that the permanent loss to the county’s timber was nearly $10 million, which would be $70 million in today’s dollars. Some of the most severe damage was to agriculture and timber. In the weeks following the hurricane, the Picayune Item reported on the local impacts. This was certainly true as the eyewall moved through Pearl River County. Although the storm surge was confined to near the coast, and its adjacent streams and bayous, Camille’s high winds wreaked havoc far inland. ![]()
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