Communities near the Gulf Coast prepared on Friday, June 18, for the arrival of a potential tropical cyclone threatening severe rain, wind, and hail. RELATED: Heat wave 2021: Dangerous temperatures, drought impact western USBut disappointment was evident in the voice of Seneca Hampton, an organizer of the Juneteenth Freedom Festival in Gautier, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
He had spent weeks arranging food trucks, vendors, a bounce house, face painting and free hamburgers and hotdogs for the event.
It was highly anticipated after last year’s event was canceled due to COVID-19, and in light of the recent designation of Juneteenth as a federal holiday."It’s something that means a lot to people, and there were people that were bummed out,.