re: Pass Christian, diamondhead, bay St. Louis

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And Lake Pontchartain right next door is always rumored to have Randy turds floating by. I caught encephalitis when I was 8yo In The Lake, almost killed me.

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I thought I’d read that for the most part, Lake P has gotten much better over the years.

I grew up going to Pass Christian along with a lot of other Nola people. Some people like the sleepy fishing village vibe but I got bored fast as a youth. My favorite thing was going out to Cat, Ship and Horn Islands from the Pass harbor. There is some good fishing to be had in the Mississippi Sound, but you have to go out a ways to get to it.

My family had a good thing going in the Pass until a Monday morning in 2005 when literally everything we had over there was gone, even trees that were torn from the earth. It's disturbingly surreal thinking back to that scene which really was like history book pictures of Hiroshima. Some of it is just indefensible against major hurricanes, and updated building codes wouldn't have done anything for our location.

As for Bay St. Louis, it is unrecognizable from what it once was. I don't like the commercialization and growth but I'm sure I'm in the minority on that.

Good luck.

Some good high spots like Downtown BSL, but a lot of low lying areas with crap soils where you can still find empty slabs from Katrina. Building on these sites will be expensive. I would build up higher than the minimum 16 ft required as well. A tropical storm will push a 10 ft storm surge around here

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The misconception of the sounds water isn't due to the Mississippi River but the Pearl, Jourdan, Wolf, Biloxi, and others flowing into the sound and being trapped by the barrier islands

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Right. If you go out to those barrier islands (which, as you can see on the map posted are actually closer to the Miss River mouth) the water at those beaches is about comparable to what you get in say Pensacola Beach.

Name three cities that can be wiped out simultaneously at any time between july1 and Nov1.

I was at Keesler AFB during Hurricane Fredrick. Cat 2/3, I think. Flooded Mobile pretty bad if I recall and messed up the MS. gulf coast pretty bad also. Was without electricity for less than a week. Hurricanes suck more than they blow.

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Just 30 years too late.

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You misspelled 70

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Right. If you go out to those barrier islands (which, as you can see on the map posted are actually closer to the Miss River mouth) the water at those beaches is about comparable to what you get in say Pensacola Beach.

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Eh, maybe not always good as Pensacola Beach -- Mississippi island water conditions can vary with weather, tides, rainfall, etc. But it CAN get REALLY pretty out there. For example, Horn Island, gulf side, in July two years ago:


Horn Island, gulf side this past June. Nice, but not quite as Pensacola-ish:


The insides of the islands can also be very clear depending again on weather, rain and tides. This is the Mississippi Sound side of Ship Island about 10 years ago:

You gonna need a gas cart to get to old town?

If you have kids in school the Pass is the way to go. I recently moved to the pass and love it.