The Bay Waveland Yacht Club, along with a vast mixed neighborhood ranging from large, old mansions along the water to well-kept middle class houses on neat orderly streets was totally destroyed by Katrina’s waves which inundated Cedar Point from both sides.

Surrounded on the south by the Gulf, on the north by the Jordan River and on the east by Saint Louis Bay, this peninsula narrows to Cedar Point — from which the neighborhood takes it’s name.  It is only about 3 miles across from the Gulf to the river, and only ten to fifteen feet above sea level.

While Katrina’s 30 foot surge barreled in from the Gulf and swept into the houses from the south, it pushed a huge quantity of water into Bay Saint Louis and up the Jordan River. Then all that water drained back to the ocean driving another massive surge into the houses from the north.

Almost all of the houses were totally destroyed, leaving only the newest that had been built to stringent hurricane mitigaion codes left standing — and even those needed to be completely gutted and restored.