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Thread: Wildcard: Gulf casinos decimated

  1. 08-31-2005, 05:51 AM #1
    Wildcard
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    Wildcard: Gulf casinos decimated


    The Copa and Treasure Bay are gone. I cannot confirm, but believe the President is destroyed as well.

    If you are familiar with the area, I suspect the street leading from in front of the Beau Rivage northbound to the Imperial Palace and Boomtown have lost all the houses on the street for sure. I often wondered what would happen to them as I drove down that street many times, they looked so flimsy.

    The damage to the Grand Casino is massive, as is the damage to the Hard Rock, which was supposed to open tonight at midnight. The Hard Rock's rock and roll memorabilia area simply is no longer there. The Gibson guitar is still standing, perhaps because it was positioned perpendicular to the coast. Strings broken on the huge guitar.

    A portion of the Grand Casino Gulfport is literally sitting on Hwy 90. The first two floors of the Beau Rivage have extensive damage.

    Perhaps when the rebuilding happens the powers to be may waive the idiotic requirement to have the casinos "touch" the water in order to be legal, thus the use of huge barges to support the casinos. The barges being extremely bouyant were simply lifted up in the surge and obviously acted like massive destruction weapons.

    Key bridges have only supports standing in the water.

    The loss of life is incredible.

    Gotta pray for all those in this horrific nightmare!!


  2. 08-31-2005, 06:06 AM #2
    Bettie
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    Bettie: Re: Gulf casinos decimated

    Yeah, we were watching the news and picking out the different casinos, and could plainly see that the Hard Rock (among others) was pretty much gone. According to Governor Barbour, Katrina destroyed "every one" of the casinos, which contribute $500,000 per day in revenues to state coffers. I read somewhere that looters were even picking through the garbage looking for change from the machines! CNN has a gallery of the casinos' "remains," for anyone interested.

    Bettie
  3. 08-31-2005, 08:44 AM #3
    Dog Hand
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    Dog Hand: Bettie... please post a link to CNN photos. Thanks! *NM*

  4. 08-31-2005, 08:06 PM #4
    Bettie
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    Bettie: It's a little convoluted


    Hopefully, this will still work for everyone, but I can't link directly to the pix because it's in a "gallery" format linked from a sidebar found on a main story page. Try going to the link below (currently the main news story on the CNN website), and then there's a link in a "Related" sidebar called "Gallery: The lost casinos." Clicking on that will get you to the pictures. Oh, and make sure that you scroll across the bottom to see all of the pictures (there's 12, currently).

    Bettie


  5. 09-01-2005, 01:49 PM #5
    Dog Hand
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    Dog Hand: Thanks... I found it with your directions! *NM*

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