Rita Damage to SW Louisiana worse than being reported

Lake Charles.com Photos ^ | September 25, 2005

[Comstock1]

The damage that has hit SW Louisiana and SE Texas is much worse than is being reported by the MSM. While there is very little in the way of a body count, houses and businesses by the hundreds have been destroyed. Entire communities in Cameron Parish have more than likely been erased from the map.

Here is link for some images from SW LA. You'll have to scroll down.

http://forum.lakecharles.com/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/14/t/000023

[Candor7]

Hey Com,

Since you have a really great thread here, I am posting this link so we can get updated SAT photos later for before and after orbital shots of Cameron. I do believe that Rita did more sever hurricane damage than Katrina did to New Orleans. The damage to New Orleans was essentially flood damage, not wind shear damage that we see in Cameron.

This is how Cameron looked from space before Rita. It will be interesting to compare it with the After Rita shots when they come available. Sorry I do not have the HTML code skills to put the picture up here. Perhaps someone who has , can do that ( thanks!):

http://www.terraserver.com/imagery/image_gx.asp?cpx=-93.324996&cpy=29.7975&res=16&provider_id=360&t=pan

Pings on you Com!

[southlake_hoosier]

Terraserver view of Cameron in 1998:
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=14&x=146&y=1029&z=15&w=3&qs=%7ccameron%7cla%7c

[proud American in Canada]

It seems to be a single housepad with scattered cinderblocks

In the second picture, towards the end of the 1-50 posts page, you can see roads, with the yellow dotted line, and flattened electric/telephone poles.

It looks like an entire neighborhood was taken out.

[Comstock1]

That is really good news. I think that the Feds have done a better job than they have been given credit for.

The Marines in Hackberry? For some reason that just makes me want to laugh, but I'm too worried. People in SW LA mostly know how to take care of themselves and to a certain extent setbacks like this are a part of normal life around there, but this one is just a little worse.

The main frustration is having to watch all these reports about Houston and Galveston and New Orleans when the real devastation is somewhere else. My family got out, but my cousin had to leave his farm and animals. My mom's house is still a mystery as is the camp in Hackberry. My wife's best friend has a family business in Holly Beach. It looks like the whole town is gone. I am getting most information from bulletin boards, not the media. It's a real pisser.

While it is hard to access Cameron Parish, it isn't on another planet, it can be gotten too by boat and airplane. The MSM has dropped the ball, just like they did in Mississippi last time around.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right On!

[Comstock1]

Great idea!

[silentknight]

You can see the slabs where some of the houses used to be in those photos above - along with telephone poles.

[Candor7]

Yours: My family got out, but my cousin had to leave his farm and animals. My mom's house is still a mystery as is the camp in Hackberry. My wife's best friend has a family business in Holly Beach. It looks like the whole town is gone. I am getting most information from bulletin boards, not the media. It's a real pisser.

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The way things are going ( fast) it should only be a couple of days before your folks can go back in to inspect what happened.If the animals were sheltered, perhaps they will be waiting when your cousin gets back in.

I am sure everybody here would help your family out if there is any need.

Please keep us informed of the aftermath process your family and friends have to go through, the media reports little of that. I also noticed that the [hurricane city site] has a lot of links for folks who have suffered damage, so they do not have to wait for FEMA interviews to know how to prepare necessary documentation, it can be taken with them for the first interview.

Best wishes and keep us informed. Let us know if your folks need any help.

Thanks for keeping us in the know.

[mabelkitty]

I guess you understand how red West Virginians feel when rain rushes down the dynamited mountains (pork projects, ya know) and floods people out of their homes.
Never ever mentioned on TWC. Nobody cares.
Only decadent, liberal, amoral playgrounds are covered - gotta make the taxpayers pay for the upkeep of the corrupt.

[LA Woman3]

We are also anxious to hear about Holly Beach and Johnson's Bayou--which were directly under Rita's eye.


Will you ping me with any information you find out about Holly Beach and Johnson's Bayou?

[GretchenM]

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[Comstock1]

Just like everything else, if the MSM can't order at a nearby Starbucks, it is unlikely it will be covered. Unless it is a chance to say "Bush's Fault".

It really doesn't seem like an FR thread until someone says it.

[Comstock1]

There's a photo on Yahoo showing Holly Beach--it appers to be gone...

My friend's family owns T&T Grocery in Holly Beach. They aren't expecting it to be there anymore.

There is another photo of Johnson's Bayou, but it only shows one of the oil storage tanks between Holly Beach and Johnson's Bayou. Water everywhere, but not quite as much debris. But it is from quite a distance.

[kenth]

What are those sticks, power poles? Wow. It just swept everything away. It reminds me of photos of the OKC tornado. All you saw left of some of those houses were a foundation with nothing more than an inch or two of pipe sticking up out of the concrete.

[LA Woman3]

We own a Recreation company in Louisiana.
My husband just got through putting in a playground in Holly Beach and pool slides in Johnson Bayou (ironic, isn't it?) It has been surreal seeing all the pictures of the devastation in our state. Prayers to all who have lost so much.

[lainie]

OOOps you said MSM. Fox News reports truth and is not a part of the MSM.

Unfortunately, that's not true. FNC has really changed in the last year or more.

[Polybius]

When I read on FR last night that the CG was rescuing the stranded in SW LA yesterday my first thought was good grief - does no one learn -

No, they have not learned. Nobody taught them.

The only lesson that the liberal news media "taught" after Katrina was that "George Bush hates black people". For a particularly vile example, checkout the cover article in the Newsweek edition with the face of the crying black child on the cover.

How Bush Blew It

After Katrina, the liberal news media had a choice between educating millions of Americans about the dangers of Storm Surge or mindlessly blaming Bush. The liberal news media chose the latter course.

Look at the photo of Campron, LA that backhoe posted in Post 4:

That is what Storm Surge does.

Right after Rita, I wrote and posted a FreeRepublic educational vanity about Storm Surge because I was not seeing anything in the media regarding the topic.

What Is "Storm Surge" and Why It Matters. (Katrina Education Vanity)

What happened in Campron, La. is exactly what I was talking about in my Storm Surge thread.

Yet, the average American Democrat that depends on the liberal news media for his education has no idea what storm surge is and has no idea that the evacuation of New Orleans was botched by the Mayor and the Governor prior to Katrina.

If you don't believe me, have a little chat with one of your Democrat acquaintances.

I had such a chat yesterday and this otherwise very-well educated woman had no idea what storm surge was and had no idea that the Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan called for the evacuation of people without cars on public buses and had no idea that New Orleans' poor had been left behind while hundreds of buses stayed parked in New Orleans.

Having the choice between educating those in danger of Storm Surge and seeing dead black people they can blame on Bush, the liberal news media will gleefully choose Door Number Two.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Now that is devastation. Looks like a town that was literally built on the beach.

The ocean put the sand there, and it can takle it back any time it wants.

[FreeReign]

What happened in Campron, La. is exactly what I was talking about in my Storm Surge thread....Having the choice between educating those in danger of Storm Surge and seeing dead black people they can blame on Bush, the liberal news media will gleefully choose Door Number Two.

Your point about the MSM is correct. That said, I bet given the location, the people of Holly Beach and Cameron are no strangers to storm surge and don't need the government or the MSM media telling them what it is.

[Aggie Mama]

I think they need to call it what it is: a tsunami. Storm surge makes it sound like it's something you can run away from.

The thread you made is outstanding. Very few people know how decimating the storm surge can be.