Bay St. Louis House

This photo is part of our tour last weekend of historic Bay St. Louis. This beachfront house belongs to a well-known Coast bank chairman, and he and his family are still living there on the 2nd floor as they restore the rest of the house. You can start at the (former) beginning of the Highway 90 bridge in Bay St. Louis and drive down Beach Rd., and almost every house and business is wiped out. But there is this one stand of houses - about six in a row - that are still standing because of higher ground. The current Beach Rd. (which was put in by DOT after the storm) is about 8 feet lower than the former Beach Rd. because it was eroded so severely by the storm. So as we were driving, we were looking up at the houses and the front edges of their jagged sidewalks.