Gulfport, Mississippi

Legal Services city of Gulfport Mississippi The City of Gulfport, Mississippi is has an approximate population of 80,000 and a daily population of over 144,000. The Gulfport Police Department is responsible for providing police services for over 55.6 square miles. The department is made up of 67 sworn personnel and 57 civilian personnell. Our department provides patrol services, traffic enforcement, criminal investigations, narcotics investigations, community and intelligence led policing initiatives

Legalized Gaming in Mississippi "Once given up dead, Biloxi this summer celebrates the 10th anniversary of a casino-driven rebirth that has been dubbed 'The Mississippi Coast Miracle' " (Biloxi, Miss., Celebrates... 1). In 1992 the first legalized gaming facilities opened on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The casinos gave Mississippi's economy the boost it has needed for a long time. Religious groups and other activists were against the legalization of gaming because they

off as a tropical storm in the Caribbean Sea. Then it picked up speed and hit Florida in the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall near the Louisiana and Mississippi border on Aug. 29, 2005. The hurricane brought lots of winds, huge waves, and a lot of flooding that caused a lot of damage in Florida and widespread destruction in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The storm killed approximately 1,800 people, and caused about 100 billion dollars in damage.It left hundreds of thousands of people

Cause and Effect2018Hurricane Katrina was destructive and deadly tropical cyclone istory of the United States. As Katrina made landfall, which held the strongest winds, slammed into Gulfport, Mississippi, devastating it. On August 27, Katrina reached Category 3 status, becoming the third major hurricane of the 2005 season. Because of this pressure measurement, Katrina was officially the fourth Atlantic hurricane on record at the time, only for hurricanes Rita and Wilma to surpass it later in the

On August 23, 2005 through August 31, 2005 a tragic moment occurred in New Orleans. People 's lives changed by losing everything they had due to this storm. It damaged a majority of the coast leading to massive flooded houses, everything underwater, and families not able to find their loved ones. A band of storm clouds wrapped around the north side circulation center early the morning of August 24th. The wind was blowing about 40 mph. The storm was originally called Tropical Katrina. Hurricane Katrina

going to be building Casino Magic in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi and he wanted Bruce to come and work with him. Bruce accepted and was able to recommend two close friends for a job as well. Bruce has always stressed the power of making friends and networking at work. "You never know what may come of it down the road," he states. In the early 1990 's, Mississippi approved for the construction of the first gambling establishments on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. At this time, there were few things to

On a whim, we traveled to this spot in Perdido Key, Florida. My daughter, Sierra, and I have been going on vacations the past few years with my biological father Joe and his girlfriend Theresa. Last year he wanted us to go to a family reunion in Mississippi, we wanted to go to a vacation spot in Florida. My daughter and I hadn’t been to a "real" beach. We hadn't experienced the blue waters

of the Mississippi Gulf Coast”, Tretheway has purposely pictured the devastation scenario from witnesses’ narratives; hence her story could speak for many stories of people who are less visible, whom we cannot see struggling against the aftermath - the stories we may not know about how tenacious the return of Gulf Coast communities was from those tremendous sufferings they miserably faced up to. From a personal, yet natural perspective, Tretheway chose to form the portrait of the Gulfport district

United States Mississippi. Today Ill be bringing to you a small parts of information about a lot of different places in Mississippi. Mississippi is a state located in the Southern part of the United States. Jackson is the states capitol and largest city with a population of around 175,000 people. Mississippi has basically a humid climate, It has long summers and short winters. The first major European expedition was in Mississippi. Back in the day two different tribes were in Mississippi and they called

flood. This happened in a lot of cases just hours after the storm moved inland. After a while, eighty percent of the city and large tracts of neighboring parishes were flooded. However, the worst property damage occurred in coastal areas, like the Mississippi beach towns where over ninety percent of them were flooded. Many boats and casino barges rammed buildings, pushing cars and houses inland; water reached six to twelve miles from the