Peaceful looking coastline West of Holly Beach in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Posted on 09/25/2005 6:14:46 AM PDT by 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
Those houses didn't stand a chance against Rita!
Lake Charles look like the kind of place I would have loved to visit and maybe stay for a couple of years or so. It truly is a beautiful city.
Peaceful looking coastline West of Holly Beach in Lake Charles, Louisiana
But those heartstrings do pull...
Especially right now.
New video from the area on Fox right now. Unedited -- nothing left on the coast.
Fox news finally reporting and showing some footage of the southwestern parishes. And just said hundreds might be trapped there. No kidding.
The footage is awful. It looks like the images we saw of MS after Katrina, only it's still under water.
Fox showing new video from from area; nothing left on the shore, large trucks overturned, half buried in sand and mud.
Holly Beach on Fox. The town is gone. Just gone.
It's horrid. isn't it?
I'll readily admit it's one of the more disquieting things I've seen so far-- probably because it's more like my native islands than a city.
This is much more horrifying than the flood waters in NO.
Black pastor and wife being interviewed (former NO residents know in Houston). Thank Houston folks who have helped. Faith is strong; keep looking ahead; Jesus will not desert them.
To make an observation that fewer black citizens were involved in the Rita devastation is not turning it into a "racial thing." It happens that President Bush was accused by some blacks and Democrats of being a racist because a large number of black citizens were stranded in New Orleans after Katrina. Maybe the laziness of journalists is a contributing factor, but do not think for a moment that they couldn't get out of New Orleans for a different view if they wanted to. The fact is that there is an agenda, and white people stranded on rooftops does not advance that agenda. It is the liberal slant of news that makes it a "racial thing."
Fox News new video - incredible damage in Southern Louisiana. Whole areas just gone - slabs left.
Fox News new video - incredible damage in Southern Louisiana. Whole areas just gone - slabs left.
RELIEF AS HURRICANE FAILS TO CAUSE DEVASTATION
What the heck do you call what happened along the Louisiana coast? Was all this horrific damage going to be the media's best-kept secret? Did the MSM really think they could pretend Rita did nothing just so they could keep the focus on NOLA and its levees?
When all is said and done, I think we'll find Rita was every bit as destructive as Katrina. And I'm still not sure that she came in with just 120 mph winds.
I had the same reaction- for whatever reason, these pictures bothered me more than NOLA, which were certainly bad enough in their own right.
Floodwaters surround damaged homes and businesses in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005 in Cameron, La. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) 
I am afraid that other parts of Louisiana and also Mississippi and Alabama will be neglected by the disaster relief organizations simply because about all we could hear about or see on television was New Orleans. We put some things on a truck last weekend that was going to a church campground where 2,000 evacuees were staying in Mississippi. I guess FEMA, Red Cross, Samaritan's Purse and Salvation Army are in all the places, though.
The communities are tiny. They were abandoned. Everyone knew they would flood, and those at the eye would be destroyed. Cameron was at the eye. And the cameras just got down there today.
If those cattle can't find dry land to swim to they will have to be rescued cause they'll get hoof rot from standing in the water too long. Bummer
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