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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedCoast Electric Power begins rebuilding system after Katrina's wrath.
Bulletin (Northwest Public Power Association), October, 2005 by Wilhite, Terry
Ron Barnes, who heads communications and marketing for Coast Electric Power Association in Bay St. Louis, Miss., saw Hurricane Katrina coming and did as he always does when the Gulf of Mexico becomes active.
"I sent my wife and kids to Crestview, Fla., to my wife's sister's house, out of harm's way, and then I tossed a week's worth of clothes into my car and headed to the office. Little did 1 know that these would be the only possessions I own."
Barnes and more than 70 employees of Coast EPA lost their homes and all their belongings when Hurricane Katrina put the electric cooperative in the cross hairs of what federal officials are now calling the worst natural disaster in American history. A Coast EPA work order clerk is still missing and the worst...
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