The Mardi Gras party on Fat Tuesday means a massive clean-up project on Ash Wednesday.
Many Mardi Gras revelers were likely still in bed when the early morning clean-up workers hit the streets. Street cleaners and trash pick-up crews got started at seven o'clock in downtown Biloxi.
As usual, there were plenty of unwanted leftovers along the parade route. It is the ugly side of Mardi Gras. City clean-up crews get the annual chore of picking-up after the parade.
"We're moving along pretty good here today," said city worker Anthony Gazzo.
You might call them the "Krewe of Clean-up." As workers hit the streets with shovels and rakes and trash bags, the city's motorized street sweeper begins making the rounds.
By late morning, city workers are putting a serious dent in the post-Mardi Gras mess.
"We're picking up Mardi Gras leftovers. Cans, bottles, debris. Everything you can think of down here today," said Gazzo, who has been picking trash off the parade route for seven years.
Now that there's just one Fat Tuesday parade in Biloxi there's noticeably less litter.
"I'd say it's not as bad as it has been. After Katrina there it kind of mellowed out with just one parade instead of three parades. Everything's a lot different now, not too bad," he said.
A strong stomach is a good asset for facing the post-parade mess.
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