Ocean Springs High School - Greyhound Yearbook (Ocean Springs, MS)

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8 Frederic WERE YOU READY A telephone pole in Biloxi dangles ominously storm did not hit Biloxi as earlier forecasting from its own wires while cars hurry to get predicted: instead. it turned hit Mobile and On September 12th. 1979 Hurricane Fre- past. Biloxi was not hit as hard during Fre- Pascagoula. deric as it had been during Camille. The deric roared his way through Mobile. the Dauphin lslandKiulf Shores area, Pasca- goula. Ocean Springs. and Biloxi. The eye of Freddie passed through Pascagoula and Mobile. and caused severe damage to both areas. Ocean Springs received more wind damage during ttFreddie than it did when Hurricane Camille blew her way through the area in 1969. Camille claimed many lives, but Frederic claimed only twelve. Pascagoula. Mobile. North Biloxi. and Ocean Springs were considered national disaster areas and only people living in the two areas were allowed in or out. Oth- ers were kept out by the National Guard and the police. Because of the damage to the power lines and poles. power crews were kept work- ing around the clock: by Sunday. most of Ocean Springs. parts of Biloxi and Pasca- goula had power. Ice lines were long. but everyone managed to get some ice. Two weeks later. all of the cities were almost back to normal: clean up - a long and overwhelming job - was underway. Even after the cleanup was completed. the effects of Frederic were obvious - many homes were still being repaired and the beautiful landscape of the coast was scarred. a M T. H. 2 W . '1 yam e Mf , 3'; 4i? . N: My legs are killing me! commented one girl while this long line in front of the Bay Ice Company. Many standing in line waiting for some ice. HFred brought people were tired and hungry after a long wait in the with him hot weather. spoiling food. which caused ice line.

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Snap. crackle, pop e goes a ban fire on East Beach as Marty Coate adds another piece of wood. Bon fires are frequently held by students to get together on the weekends. Some are fired-up in anticipation of victories. some depict defeat. and some merely burn the debris from Frederick. Sunsets at the beach always make the end of a day special. Dan Horgan shuffles his feet through the water as he tries to catch up with David Harris: Davis is castneting on East Beach one Sunday afternoon in the early fall. Mm Mm GoodIMany students like to take advan- tage of the privilege to eat off campus for lunch. The only problem of buying food off campus is making sure to get back to school in time. Nicky Steptoe. John Kuen. Ricky Argroves, and Derek Spencer solve the problem of the rush by bring- ing the food back to school to eat. Reading a good book is always fun and full of inter esting facts. John Engelhardt reads his book while perched on the park bench on the front lawn during lunch. For John. lunch just is not lunch without reading a couple of pages from a favorite book. Opening Section 7

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gl- e.twwxw T. A new car in Ocean Springs on Shearwater Drive had been messed up pretty badly during Fred. The car had been bought only a week before the hurricane hit. A new 1979 Rabbit. the owners were upset. but. the insurance company would take care of it! TFREDDIEW? Scrape. scrape. scrape - goes the old man's rake as he cleans up the mess made by Hurricane Fre- deric of the Ectasy in downtown Ocean Springs In Ocean Springs. damage from Hurri- cane Frederic wasn't minimal. but then again it wasn't going to be an easy job to clean up either. The city was without pow- er and the water was not good to drink. Trees and lines were down everywhere and some roads were impassable. School was out for five days because of lack of electricity and damage to the high school gymnasium and the roof. The gym was flooded from the holes in its roof and could not be used for pep rallies because the noise and movement might bring it in on the students: and the pep rallies were held outside. It was repaired. though. for the last four pep rallies. much to the thankfulness of the students. Electricity was restored to all of Ocean Springs in about 10 days and clean up was underway. Local stores were torn up, which is completely gutted. uTony David's Furniture World caught fire and lost a lot of merchandise and many houses had trees through them. but some were beginning to open for busi- ness. Ice was delivered to Greyhound Sta- dium during the 10 day period and J.E.G. market had a Fred Sale because their food - especially ice cream - was be- ginning to spoil. Gasoline was scarce and expensive. Greyhound Stadium had its light poles knocked out and two of them ended up in the bleachers. The score board was com- pletely destroyed: home games were res- cheduled for the Biloxi Stadium on Satur- day nights. Homecoming was on October 13th. at 2:00 in the afternoon instead of on the 12th as previously planned. De- spite the heat, a large crowd attended. Even though Ocean Springs has recov- ered. the people will remember Hurricane Frederic and the long hours of waiting. Frederic 9