"It seems like a lot of the chicks are covered"

Poor Scott Counts, a 45-year-old Florida roofer who has come to Gulfport do hurricane reconstruction work and has encountered a city newly filled with men like himself, who now greatly outnumber the women. "It seems like a lot of the chicks are covered. I'm not the kind of guy who will stand in line with ten other guys to talk to a woman," Counts said in an interview with the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

"We may be devastated, but we're not desperate,"one of the local women told the newspaper. Another Gulfport woman said "All these guys are either married or they're lying."

Hooters is full all the time now, and bar fights, parking lot fights, DWI's and drug arrests have dramatically increased. It's just one big testosterone-filled, sex-crazed good time, but not for everyone.