PEARLINGTON, Miss. – Of all the things you’d expect to find in a hurricane zone, can this be anywhere on your list? Don’t bother rubbing your eyes again, because there it is: the head of a full-grown lion resting in the crusty filth along Highway 90 in this little town west of Waveland.
The lion is not alone. A jet ski, a splintered skiff and some smaller flotsam also festoon a wide spot where the road is closed at the cantilevered swing bridge that spans the Pearl River on the Louisiana border.
We imagine it is the long-ago work of a taxidermist, a fallen trophy from the wall of a wealthy hunter who enjoyed the occasional safari. But we can’t be sure because there is an indescribable stench rising from the whole area and we have no intention of bending any closer to this specimen.
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in the picture above the post (main picture "rising from ruin"), you say it's a 360 degree picture of the damage. Its the same picure 180 out as you turn the page around. Kinda false advertising there, isn't it?
Justin, Mobile, AL (Sent Oct 26, 2005 10:30:07 AM)
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