Chris Snyder has lived just 500 feet from the beach in Ocean Springs for 43 years. He knows firsthand the destruction hurricanes can cause.
During Hurricane Katrina, he remembers climbing over debris and rubble to see if his home had survived.
“I climbed up on part of (the debris) and could see all the way down to where there had been homes. And I thought, ‘Oh, hell … everything down there is gone,’” Snyder said…