Paul Merritt, 30, surveyed the damage in Biloxi with his 18-year-old wife and their 3-month-old son, Brandon. He said the water rose to the second story of his townhouse, which is less than a block off the beach.
"I've never seen destruction of this magnitude," Merritt said. "You see this stuff on TV and you hope that it never happens to you. Everything's gone."
Ida Punzo rode out the storm with a friend and two neighbors in her 130-year-old home on the beachfront in Biloxi. The first two floors of the old house were almost completely gone, but she survived.
"It was a miracle," Punzo said. "This place is held together with God's spit. We're not supposed to be alive."
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