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worked on the first day, felt lucky because, in his part of Gulfport, the storm’s wall of water was only 10 feet high and stopped 100 yards short of his driveway. High winds ended up tearing off most of his roof, but because wind was the culprit and not flooding waters, his insurance policy covered his loss, at least this time. But for many other residents, home insurance claims disputes have led to a class action suit brought against some of the nation’s largest insurance companies by wellknown local attorney Dickie Scruggs.

Then there are residents like the woman who came to read our electric meter shortly before we left. She and her son rode out the storm in a second story apartment “with the insulation blowing apart and all around us.” Now they are currently housed in a FEMA trailer park slated, at least at the moment, to close at the end of the month, and she has no idea where she

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