Trip to Florida, post #106 -- Lake Pontchartrain, Tornado Damage, & Atchafalaya Basin Bridge
Jun 28, 2016 16:15:36 #
We have turned toward our home in Columbus, Nebraska, from our travels in Florida.
These are from March 01, Day 9 of our trip, when we traveled from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Mena, Arkansas.
Some of these photos show tornado damage from a tornado that struck 7 days earlier, on February 23, 2016. Two people were killed and 30 injured in an RV park in nearby Convent, Louisiana. One other person was killed by a tornado the same night in Lamar County, Mississippi, which is west and southwest of Hattiesburg.
The last three photos were taken on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, which travels over the Atchafalaya Swamp. This is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States, with an area of about 1,400,000 acres -- 20 miles in width from east to west, and 150 miles in length.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchafalaya_Basin
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These are from March 01, Day 9 of our trip, when we traveled from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Mena, Arkansas.
Some of these photos show tornado damage from a tornado that struck 7 days earlier, on February 23, 2016. Two people were killed and 30 injured in an RV park in nearby Convent, Louisiana. One other person was killed by a tornado the same night in Lamar County, Mississippi, which is west and southwest of Hattiesburg.
The last three photos were taken on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, which travels over the Atchafalaya Swamp. This is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States, with an area of about 1,400,000 acres -- 20 miles in width from east to west, and 150 miles in length.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchafalaya_Basin
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1) Crossing Lake Pontchartrain
2) tornado damage
3) blue tarps on the roofs of many homes
4) Sharing the Interstates with Big Equipment...
5) ... and poles ...
6) Mississippi River
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8) Heading onto the 18.2-mile-long Atchafalaya Basin Bridge
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10) Atchafalaya Basin
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