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By Steve Dwyer
 Picking up the pieces, rebounding from adversity, and exhibiting patience and fortitude. That has been the modus operandi along the Gulf Coast in both Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as in communities well inland.
If you're talking about shifting priorities— at least as it relates to a desire to proceed with ambitious redevelopment projects—those priorities were redirected in August 2005 when Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas. It made its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on August 29 in southeast Louisiana, causing severe destruction along the Gulf Coast from central Florida to Texas, much damage due to storm surge. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in the actual hurricane and in subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane.
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