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
It's terrible here in America. People are free to build anywhere they can afford. It's called a democratic republic!
That side of the state votes rightwing and works. No story there.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/sc/091905hurrica...NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Thanks- that gives perspective.
There are reports in Vermillion parish yesterday of a blind man who did not evacuate was floating on a log somewhere near Vermillion Bay.
People who lived through Hurricane Audrey said this storm will take more lives than Audrey did.
There was a report of a sting ray (fish) trying to escape a crawfish pond. Some of the scenes of white cap waves in farm fields were in places like low lying crawfish ponds.
You travel much? You see how many that Tsunami killed? This is as odd a statement as I have ever seen on FR.
Just how naive can one be? If this coverage about NO has been anything other than about race, you can smack me silly.
The entire media culture has been in lock step with Nagin, Blanco and Landrieu in this "disaster". They have taken absolutely no blame, made it into a Bush hates blacks fest and basically ignored other states horrifically damaged by Katrina.
Racial thing indeed!
Google Hurricane Audrey. Killed aboug 500 at Cameron in the fifties. It was horrible.
Cameron has been thru hell once before.
Before the Hurricane, we went to Padre Island via Corpus Christi. There were four or five foot sand dunes just off the beach.
After Hurricane Carla, the sand dunes were pushed about 100 yards back -- the storm probably washed away million of tons of sand.
Malibu Beach in California used to be a nice beach until the Movie Stars built their expensive houses to block the view of the ocean from Coast Hwy.
Then when ever a winter Pacific storm would wash away their houses, they would plead for volunteers to help save their million dollar beach homes. Of course, taxpayers subsidized this.
The Federal Government needs to condemn the houses on Malibu beach as well as parts of New Orleans.
New Orleans can always make the condemned parts of New Orleans into federally protected swamp areas to make the enviro wackos happy.
If they were insured, they should be ok. Pretty damn risky place to live. If they weren't insured, please don't expect my sympathies for their economic plight.
"The damage that has hit SW Louisiana and SE Texas is much worse than is being reported by the MSM"
alot of poor fisherman, shrimpers down there. Doubt they were insured for anything much. Cameron is a poor parish.
I just heard an interesting interview , live,on the Real Player Link through:
http://www.hurricanecity.com/
It was with the Fema Chief of Ops and he said that they estimate that 95% of residents South of I 10 had evacuated.
To help those who stayed or couldn't leave, they have 3000
rescue personel in the area with Chopper Rescue Ops being conducted from the USS Iwo Jima, which is anchored off shore ( they must have had a heavy ride off shore on Saturday).
In addition they have 300 US Marines preparing to enter the Hackberry area.
As far as politics goes, the FEMA Chief is handling the Louisiana Op while the State FEMA Chief of Texas is handling the Texas Op. FEMA Chief is skilled and a hard ass, knows how to handle the liberal whining. Notice how the Rat media Splooge ended when he came aboard.
Bush has put some good men in charge, and he will recover from all the Splooge that the Clinton Rats and the Jackson Rats piled on. Right now those Wing Nuts are looking decidely unpatriotic and ridiculous, aristocratic whiners who pull out the race card if they run out of papier de toilet on their gold plated loos.
Come on down to Cameron, Jesse and Bill, roll up your shirt sleeves and shovel a little sh_t. George Bush is shovelling yours away now, and he looks real good doing it.
George also put Clinton in his place in answer to Clinton criticism of the Iraq war, delineating how the image of weakness was created by successive Democrat administrations starting with Carter, including Clinton's.
Glad to see George rattling their cages.
George should have a good week, cruisin on the Robert's Nomination success, and a well executed FEMA plan that will have things rolling for those who have suffered
in New Orleans ( in spite of the Huey Long reincarnates
who are in readiness to skim of the anticipated flow of Billions of FEMA dollars into Louisiana State Coffers. Don't hold your breath, the Dems ruined their chances for that. Notice they shut right up as soon as they figured that out? I doubt a penny will find its way into Louisiana State institutions for redistribution, it will be dispersed directly to the people. The governor lost that opportunity when she refused to make state infrastructure available to FEMA for aid distribution,when she refused to sign over control of the Louisiana National Guard to our President, standard operating procedure. For Dems the get rich quick opportunity that the Huey Longs reincarnate have anticipated will likely not happen, and when they realize this, WATCH THE WHINING THEN!).
Anyone see the skilful touch of Karl Rove in these trends??
You could say Folk Polk is more in West Central Louisiana than being in South West Louisiana. It seems like it is much higher ground than Lake Charles...
I imagine they had some winds over 80 miles an hour, but they were too far inland and too far east to see anything but some rain and wind.
There was a tornado warning near Oakdale Friday night, but I doubt anything became of that.
Sounds like Mississippi might have more trouble today with tornadoes than Western Louisiana did Friday and Saturday.
Probably power outages, but there were severe power outages in Northeast Mississippi after Katrina, and that was quite a ways inland...
The missing "www."
Wow, I can't even tell what that used to be.
Oil production/importation was minimally affected.
The big hit of both storms is that there is a loss of about 200 billion cubic feet of Natural Gas.
We can always import more crude oil, but there are no LNG facilities in the US.
However, there is plenty of reserves already for winter. And the offshore should be able to be back to about 50% natural gas production from offshore oil rigs in a week or less.
Offshore Natural Gas production was just getting above the 50% pre-Katrina levels about a week ago. They might have made 60% of pre-Katrina levels when this storm hit.
Oil production can be made up by tapping the SPR and imports.
And refineries are in much better shape than predicted.
Port Arthur and Lake Charles got dinged a little, but the idiots of the MSM don't realize that large oil refineries have their electric power generators. They can vent their waste gas to fire the backup generators.
These big oil refineries don't need no electric power -- they are meant to be able to operate through a power outage more for safety reasons than anything else...
Gasoline should be okay -- probably drop to $1.90 wholesale or lower. Natural Gas is what is so expensive at about $11 per unit (I think it is 1000 cubic feet).
Henry Hub prices are the standard for Natural Gas.
But President Bush should waive Clean Air regulations just as was done for Katrina -- for the sake of motorists and truckers.
The biggest headache for offshore is that Intracoastal City, Port Arthur, and other land bases for offshore have some damage. But is more of a nuisance compared to what Venice and Port Fourchon went through with Katrina...
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