<img width="1024" height="682" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A woman in a pink shirt stands by the white fence of a home shaded by trees" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?w=2000&ssl=1 2000w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?resize=780%2C520&ssl=1 780w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?resize=400%2C267&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1&w=370 370w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw – 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="337242" data-permalink="https://www.mississippifreepress.org/beverley-coleman-fence-2_cred-illan-ireland/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2000,1333" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Beverley-Coleman-fence-2_cred-Illan-Ireland" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="
Beverley Coleman stands in front of her house in Waveland, Miss., on Aug. 12, 2025. She and her wife, Betty Ruth Hawkins, were among the subset of Waveland residents who elected to remain on the Gulf Coast and rebuild after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their homes in August 2005. Photo by Illan Ireland, Mississippi Free Press
Two decades after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Mississippi, Waveland has regained much of its quiet coastal splendor. But signs of the storm are still visible throughout the city and the rest of the Gulf Coast, where residents continue to grapple with its aftereffects and the trauma they endured.
