Hancock County

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According to Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, a $6 million grant will be used to construct an intermodal facility at Port Bienville in Hancock County.

The money from the Port Infrastructure Development Program will allow the Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission to move forward with construction of a 50,000 square foot weather-protected transit warehouse strategically located between the barge slip and Port Bienville Railroad.

The project will help eliminate a long-standing storage bottleneck.

Once it's complete, the warehouse will allow for the immediate transfer of moisture-sensitive cargo between water and rail.

Communities like Waveland were struck by violent wind, waves, and an immense wall of storm surge.

Measurements and assessments put the surge to be around 27 to 28 feet in parts of that county, Hancock County.

The water moved inland with enough force to literally tear houses from their foundations, carry vehicles and boats into trees, and reduce entire neighborhoods to fields of debris.

Waveland became known as Ground Zero.

Around 80% of its buildings were left uninhabitable.

57 people died across Hancock County.

Houses that had survived Hurricane Camille in 1969 were destroyed.

Along Coleman Avenue, the historic former Waveland Elementary School was the only building left standing.