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CAMILLE: 20 Years Later
“After two or three days you didn’t
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"know where you were. Houses were gone and street markers were gone. It was hard to find a landmark to know just where you were.”
R.W. Taylor Gulfport
VERNON MATTHEWS/SUN HERALD CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER.
Almost everything south of U.S. 90 in Gulfport was destroyed by the high wind and storm surge that the hurricane caused.
Building codes, zoning rose from wreckage
By SHARON STALLWORTH
THE SUN HERALD
■	Only days after Hurricane Camille wrecked the Gulf Coast, planners began considering ways to rebuild stronger and better buildings.
“Hurricane Camille sort of gave us an instant urban renewal opportunity, ” said Ned Boudreaux, manager of transportat’on planning for Gulf Regional Planning
Seafood industry wrecked for years
By PATRICK PETERSON
THE SUN HERALD
■	Mississippi processed more than $23 million worth of seafood in 1967. Hurricane Camille brought that rich industry to a temporary halt.
“We were completely wiped out,” said 63-year-old Victor Mavar, a Biloxi seafood packer. “We lost a shrimp plant, an oyster
Please see SEAFOOD, Page 31
Commission.
A Governor’s Emergency Council was organized and solicited a comprehensive study from a Massachusetts firm for long-range development in Hancock, Harrison and George counties.
Comprehensive zoning plans and building codes also were funded in individual cities along the Coast.
“Zoning didn’t change after Camille,” said Pass Christian building officer George Mixon. “It came
into existence.”
Building codes were strengthened, and the National Flood Insurance Program, which makes insurance available only to communities with restrictive flood-plain management programs, was invoked.
“Building officials are caught in the middle between these restrictions,” Mixon said. “The people don’t like the regulations of the flood insurance program, but they want somebody to help them re-
store their house when it floods.”
The 329-page study, finally delivered to the Governor’s Emergency Council, examined the history of and solutions for every problem on the Coast, ranging from fisheries and industry to human resources, tourism and land use.
“Building is spreading on to the
Please see CODES, Page 31
SUN HERALD FILE PHOTO
The entrance of Mavar Shrimp and Oyster Company in Biloxi stands as the storm left it.