George Paul

Partner @whitecase views my own

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@JAnthonyChavez Congratulations Anthony!

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@rogersjomary Sorry about your mother. Thank you for sharing the poem.

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@historyrock_ #BuddyGuy #BBKing # FreddieKing

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Halloween is around the corner so here is the best advice ever on candy selection.

[𝔸𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕒 @MissMandy126]

Went down a mike leach rabbit hole on the tik tok and forgot how hilarious he was 🤣🤣

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@MeadorFTC Congratulations!🎈🍾

[Mark Meador @MeadorFTC]

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[Josh Morgerman @iCyclone]

Twenty years—wow. Twenty years ago this morning, one of the very worst #hurricanes in American history smashed the Middle Gulf Coast. Twenty years ago, the very spot where I'm sitting to write this post was under water—had become part of the Gulf.

Mighty #KATRINA came roaring ashore on 29 August 2005, first in the SE tip of Louisiana, then at the Mississippi/Louisiana state line. The cyclone's winds had weakened to Category 3 just before landfall, but at the same time, the wind field dramatically expanded, creating a gargantuan killing machine that mauled hundreds of miles of American coastline and changed millions of lives forever.

In New Orleans, catastrophic levee failures put huge, densely populated areas underwater, killing over a thousand residents and leaving much of the city uninhabitable. Outside of the city, Plaquemines Parish (where the center first made landfall) and St. Bernard and St. Tammany Parishes were devastated by a lethal combination of wind and surge.

In Mississippi, which got the hurricane's dreaded right-front quad, the highest storm surge ever observed in the Western Hemisphere roared ashore like a mighty bulldozer, wiping out whole communities from the Louisiana state line to Biloxi and beyond. This surge—which peaked in Waveland, Bay Saint Louis, Pass Christian, and Long Beach—is officially estimated at 28 ft (8.5 m), but many locals swear it was 35 ft (11 m) or even higher. This here is Downtown Bay Saint Louis right after the hurricane. The scale of the destruction in Coastal Mississippi is hard to capture in words, looking something like a nuclear bomb had been dropped. And where the surge couldn't reach, the winds did: damaging gusts penetrated far inland, to Hattiesburg and beyond.

Because of KATRINA's tremendous size, even Alabama—over 70 mi from the landfall point—saw hurricane winds, and a large and destructive storm surge was felt on both sides of Mobile Bay. Dauphin Island and Bayou Le Batre were especially hard hit.

The final toll: almost 1,400 people dead and over $200 billion damage (in 2024 dollars), making KATRINA the deadliest American hurricane since 1928 and by far the costliest natural disaster in American history. This aside, the cataclysm caused significant population shifts across the Southern US, with KATRINA survivors migrating to other major cities like Houston, Baton Rouge, and Atlanta. To this day, the population of New Orleans remains well below what it was before KATRINA.

All along the Mississippi coast, the scars and symbols remain—the concrete slabs where grand old homes once stood, the grassy fields where businesses once thrived, the shrines, the monuments.

Despite this, Coastal Mississippi is absolutely booming today. If ever I've witnessed a phoenix rising from the ashes, it is this place—towns like Bay Saint Louis that have come roaring back even better than before, while still holding onto their unique historical markers. My home, Hurricane House, sits where an old house once stood—until this moment twenty yeas ago.

Today we remember KATRINA.

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@JoshWright1977 Why don’t they just fix the Do Not Call list?

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@RKSlaughterFTC Welcome back. Prioritize making the Do Not Call list work and the FTC will improve all of our lives!

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@johnmarknewman @MiamiLawSchool @FTC Congratulations @johnmarknewman Be sure to head down to Starkville to catch some football and BBQ this fall.

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@AlyssaLang @Wendys I am all in on this one!

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@Sherman1890 And your shares are too high. The market for purchasing these non-perishables should be worldwide.

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@AlyssaLang @TampaBayTre Congratulations! The cowbell gesture was incredibly kind. Thanks for sharing.

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@BenRemaly Great facts! Thanks!

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@spann Thank you @spann for voicing your thoughts. Your opinion carries great weight.

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@M_Ohlhausen @FTC It should!

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@charliewinfield Awesome jacket!

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@BoodleMs @buitengebieden He is adorable!

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@JAnthonyChavez Love it!

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@DouglasLFarrar Counting the hours.