More devastation from Rita.
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
Yeah. "< p >" to separate paragraphs. I think the mystery is solved.
Well Rita affected mostly white people.
Move along now. Nothing is needed from the feds here.
Signed MSM.
More devastation from Rita.
Anyone know when the star studded telethon will be on for the victims on Rita? Kidding, but somewhat serious as there are people in SWLA and SE Texas that have lost their homes due to wind and flooding. Is Sean Penn bailing his boat in Port Arthur? Probably not.
See my post 43.
"Looks like a town that was literally built on the beach."
Most countries around the world do NOT allow anyone to live near a beach. It is called common sense.
Americans are sadly lacking in common-sense since FDR and his socialist friends took over the nation's "education" and converted it over to re-education propaganda centers - no need to actually LEARN anything.
Maybe this would actually teach a lesson? I doubt that many have the intelect to realize that it was THEIR fault they were 'devastated'.
knee-jerks ... turn on you tears now about - "it aint there fault ' "yada yada yada" as your hero would say.
That’s what I thought too. I used to work at 50 miles form there, and there are lots of beach that doesn’t look much different from that. But I noticed that the photo file name had the word “medium” in it. I tried replacing it with the word large. No luck. Then big, and found this:
You can see 4 rows of beach cabin remains separated by streets.
Without a before picture, there is no way to see what kind of damage was or was not done.
Untrue. It’s also called freedom. (And flood and windstorm insurance.)
As someone else said, CAMERON, LA. It looks like a little community between the the beach and a lake about 25 miles southeast of Port Arthur. Best I can guess (using low resolution Google Earth images) is the photo is looking west along State Hwy 27 where Hwy 80 splits off.
Last week, I got on my bike to run the Natchez Trace Parkway from where it starts in Nashville. The big reason that I didn't go any further than Tupelo is that I figured that going further south would mean no motel rooms. I love my Harley, but I didn't want to sleep on it.
Historically, these homes weren't this close to the beach. Years of mismanagement of the Mississippi delta have led to tremendous coastal erosion and subsidence issues.
The Louisiana coast used to be an ecological paradise with some of the most productive fish and game resources to be found anywhere. Now its a disaster.
By the way, I'm still waiting to see if our house in Hackberry, LA is still there. Sorry no beaches nearby. The storm surge has gone 30 miles inland.
What did those folks not on the beach do wrong?
Ah HAH! Bold in the preceding post! Thanks, Dan. I KNEW some Freeper would come to the rescue. (I learn something helpful every day on FR. Soon I'll be only a mildly retarded Freeper.)
I am surprised to see all the photos of damage. Last night I was thinking Rita came in a lot less powerful than expected. What's the reasoning behind downplaying Rita???
That is Cameron La...... It's a coastal community running along a ridge next to the Gulf of Mexico. It sits due south of Lake Charles some 35 miles or so on the east side of the Ship Channel or Calcasieu River. This is the community that lost some 500+ people in 1957 when Hurricane Audrey roared ashore and wiped them out. Population of the town is about 2,000 and the Parish about 10,000.
Holy Moses! I see what you mean...
Jeff, could those be cinder blocks in yours? I can't quite make out what I'm looking at.
Americans are sadly lacking in common-sense since FDR
My understanding is that it was a modular home subdivison, but I do not know.
Thanks- I'm still puzzling over it- can't recognize anything to compare the block-like objects to.
Rita has done this kind of damage all the way from Port Arthur to Plaquemine Parish, LA. The whole LA coast has been hit like this--news is just starting to come out of Vermillion Parish and some of the other coastal parishes.
Geographically, these areas are very isolated. As voters they are very conservative and to a certain extent not fond of anyone showing up to do a newsstory.
It is simply another part of America that has historically been ignored, despite all the things that these people do for our country.,
At least most of them were smart enough to leave before this thing hit.
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