Vincent Creel
Vincent Creel
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I think by the time they look under every crushed building, there will be hundreds dead and missing right here in Biloxi.
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CC means 'condemned by the city'. If a structure is a threat to public safety or public health, it's going to have to come down. If you seen the CC in front of the sidewalk at your house, there's no reason to fear. We're not going to come down tomorrow and tear your house down. That's just another step in the process.
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He is going to be looked on as a genius for that.
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Camille killed more people this time than she did all those years ago.
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All elected leaders will be looking at whether the regional system is fair and equitable to the taxpayers who elected them. Regional systems are nothing new to us. We already participate in regional libraries, wastewater, transit and the airport. We just don't want one city subsidizing the affairs of others.
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The future of the Point is up in the air. Gaming groups have expressed an interest in that area, and a number of adjoining land owners have sold their property. There is no firm decision yet.
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The mayor is expected to discuss where we before the storm, and what we have done since the storm, and will be unveiling an initiative for the long-term recovery.
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We're still going with the official count from last night, 40 in Biloxi. But that's going to be very low.
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That would be the worst thing that could happen to us, to be all casinos, and we've known that since Day One. We don't want to be the Las Vegas of the South.
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Our goal was to put people in the storm.
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We drained Food Giant for the public safety people. The mayor commandeered the store.
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It's going to be in the hundreds. Camille was 200, and we're looking at a lot more than that.
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It was not so much a communications breakdown as it was a communication device breakdown. So if we'd have had carrier pigeons, we'd have been using them. We'd have used smoke signals, but we didn't have water.
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It was once known as the International Plaza, which is indicative of the diversity of the Point Cadet area.