Former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour honored for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts

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Former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour honored for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts

Former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour honored for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) – August 29, 2005. It’s a date that will be infamously remembered in Mississippi, as the eye of Hurricane Katrina came over Waveland and ravaged the Coast. Governor Haley Barbour was in office at the time. He remembers the first time he saw the Coast after the storm rolled through. “It looked like the hand of God had wiped away the coa…