BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Hubbard Hardware owner David Hubbard says his Waveland business has been through a lot since it opened in 1953.

The impacts of Hurricane Katrina flood his mind as he cleans the store.

“It’s something that I try to forget,” Hubbard said.

Hubbard said his family didn’t evacuate and that they rode out the storm in his sister’s home.

He said his sister’s home got little to no damage... but the store got 40 inches of water. He remembers assessing the damage after the storm.

“It was a disaster... Everything on all the bottom shelves of the store was kind of stirred up in a mess,” he said. “No time to think, just time to get up and move... cleaning house, cleaning, cleaning.”

Hubbard said he’s amazed at how Waveland and Bay St. Louis have grown almost 20 years later.

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