For these dubious distinctions Biloxi wins recognition in this survey as a clunker city.
Atlas Brown says he has waited ten days at a friend's home in Biloxi, Miss.
In Mississippi, officers in the Biloxi Police Department are feeling the effect of those traumatic days still.
Just 83 miles away from New Orleans on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in Biloxi, business is booming.
Harrah's Entertainment sought two of is large floating casinos, one in Biloxi, the other in Gulfport, destroyed.
Biloxi's vast sprawl of defense-related industries, accounting for at least 40, 000 jobs, ought to provide some protection.
Gulfport-Biloxi's unemployment rate hit 23.2 percent the month after Katrina, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach, Gulfport, Biloxi to Pascagoula, has just been devastating.
Sherry Hokamp(ph) is in charge of all emergency dispatchers in the Biloxi department, the people who accept 911 calls.
Ms. SHERRY HOKAMP (Biloxi Police Dispatcher): Some of the calls, they were distressing.
But he's going to take a chopper ride, a helicopter ride, from Mobile, Alabama, past Biloxi, eventually ending up in New Orleans.
Ms. BEAUGEZ: Yes, that may be the biggest challenge to Biloxi, just what this storm did to the psychology of Biloxi's people.
The following March, a Biloxi, Mississippi, television station reported on a local couple who were having formaldehyde problems with their FEMA trailer.
CNN: Report slams FEMA on health hazard in emergency housing
One bank, based in Biloxi, had nearly half of its branches destroyed.
So why is the Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula area (pop. 372, 000) such a basket case?
Holloway, Biloxi's mayor, says the city celebrates new milestones of recovery daily.
And for the most part, there really aren't people here to come and see Biloxi as we would love her to be presented.
Holloway admits that residential areas have been slow to recover, especially in the hardest hit areas of East Biloxi and along Highway 90.
The preliminary unemployment rate in Gulfport and Biloxi for June was 7.9 percent, compared with a national rate of 9.4 percent in July.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Lanni travelled to the company's Biloxi, Miss. riverboat casino, the Beau Rivage, to talk one-on-one with devastated employees.
MacKondy said all of the new construction and growth excites him and he believes Biloxi will become the next Las Vegas with a beach.
But they can't afford to finish it, so they're still living in a FEMA trailer on their property in Biloxi with their teenage son.
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The 26 miles of sugary white beaches lining Biloxi and Gulfport have been greatly widened since the storm and is the main natural attraction here.
Bill Stallworth, executive director of the Hope Coordination Center in Biloxi that helps rehouse Katrina victims, said he's astounded that the supplies were given away.
CNN: Supplies for Katrina victims went to Mississippi agencies
Nevertheless, Dubaz plans to remain in her flood-damaged home in Biloxi.
Loaves and Fishes also serves down-on-their luck visitors to Biloxi's casinos.
The company's new in-house system can track every piece of HP hardware and project its sales potential from a factory in Thailand to a store in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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