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
Look, I don't mean it as a personal insult... but any reasonable person has got to expect that when they build a house on what is LITERALLY THE BACKSTOP for almost every Atlantic hurricane, they're going to lose their home someday. So buy insurance and enjoy the beach.
I'm just tired of hearing that this perfectly predictable disaster came as a surprise to anyone. I'm outraged at the fact that taxpayer money is being used to rebuild. Infrastructure I can understand, but private homes? Every month I have at least a second mortgage worth of taxes yanked out of my paychecks. Sure wish I could have a beach house... but no, I have to pay for people who are incapable of planning ahead.
-bc
We will probably see reports of needy people's sex change operations being paid for by the New Orleans disaster recovery funds.
My in-laws run a [the] Thai restaurant in Leesville. They kept open, sometimes without power, during the storm. I heard second hand that the wind was 60 mph gusting to 90, which frankly sounds a bit high based on what the forecasts were, but that things were basically O.K. I imagine there were lots of trees down. I tried checking the Leesville Daily Leader [newspaper] website, but they had nothing past last Thursday.
Well, now the Leader has some news on its website, and a lot of pictures of destruction, much of it from trees. It looks pretty bad to me, but they are apparently recovering.
http://www.leesvilledailyleader.com/
Except during a presidential election when they need the votes. Eh, sKerry? But the Breck Girl couldn't pull in enough.
Just wait..., yet another reason to scream that properly identifying voters and making sure that they only VOTE ONCE is discriminatory!!!
They use everything for political purposes. Their sole purpose in life is to advance their agenda. Every breath they take is devoted to it.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Reminds me of a joke I was going to make about TS Rita... but I censored myself and didn't make it.
That used to be Holly Beach. I guess there might have been 100 or so full time residents. Everything else was either 2nd homes (beach houses) or rental property.
They should also be investigating which banks held a lot of the leases within the area. Could be some major exposure for some.
Also got caught with pants down for Andrew. Even were forced to upgrade the final rating, eventually.
I saw an MSM interview with one man who owned a property in a Hurricane exposed area. He said that you assume any investment on that land is a 10 year investment. You need to profit via an appropriately priced property renting. He was saying that if he lost it now, it would have lasted him 15 years. He was happy. I think though that he was located in Galveston.
I think it was on Fox that I heard where they said 100% of the buildings were destroyed, and 80% were totally GONE - disappeared.
Honore was talking and said that one building could probably be fixed - the townhall or courthouse - on stilts and tall ground.
Thanks. Here's a story of the last residents leaving Holly Beach. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/23/MNG64ESMQE1.DTL
Many don't understand all the various stages of oil and gas discovery down to refining and shipping final product. SW Louisiana is heavily involved in all phases of O&G.
The MSM will sit back and WAIT until gasoline prices and HEATING OIL, (remember the northeastern RABID articulate liberal democrats rely on HEATING OIL) and once a harsh winter sets in and these people have a new drum to beat, and BEAT it they will.
Rita and GW have been plotting this heating oil crisis, and all the white people who live in nthat area will be blamed for this plot too. Remember EVERY frick'in thing in America is a damn plot against black folk that vote domocrat...dontcha see?
Yep...Hurricane Audrey in the '50s wiped Cameron, LA out, killing over 600 in the storm surge. But they built right back on the beach. Now we are supposed to be shocked that the storm took everything back out to sea again. Whatever is built back will wind up the same way...maybe in 2 years, 10 years or 50 years, but it will be flattened.
No more building on the beach or even where a storm surge could get them. Insurance companies won't insure for flood damage either at all or the premiums are out of sight. Then when something like this happens to enough people, their elected representatives make sure that the more prudent among us get stuck with the bill through our taxes, higher insurance premiums or both.
The grasshopper and the ant plays out continually in a "democracy".
Holly Beach Before
Holly Beach After
Other photos:
Holly Beach Erosion Project. (May need to be updated)
Holly Beach Christian Resort Photos and story of the owners leaving
As a kid coming from Beaumont my family always contested who could be first to see the ocean as we drove through High Island.
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