Ten years ago today Hurricane Katrina made land fall on the Mississippi-Louisiana state line as a category three hurricane. Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, and Long Beach, Mississippi, bore the brunt of Katrina’s force, though central Gulf Coast cities such as Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, and Pascagoula, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana, received significant damage.
Bay St. Louis homeowner Katherine Mauffray narrates the intensifying winds and rising water on the morning of August 29, 2005, in this fifteen-minute video documenting the arrival of Hurricane Katrina. The Mauffray family survived the storm and in 2009 submitted the video to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s Historic Preservation Division as part of an application for grant funds to be used for repair of the home. The DVD was made available online as part of the MDAH archival collection.
The series consists of a video recording made at the then-residence of Conrad Lex Mauffray and family on Union Street in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, during the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the morning of August 29, 2005. The video, with a running time of fifteen minutes and twenty-two seconds, was recorded by Katherine (Mrs. Conrad) Mauffray. Call Number: Series 2701: Hurricane Katrina/Mauffray Family Home Video, 2005 (MDAH)