Isle of Capri Casino in Lake Charles blown away by Laura, wedged under I-10 bridge

Hurricane Laura blows Riverboat Casino into I-10 Bridge Supports ^ | Aug 27, 2020 | Emma Discher

[texas booster]

As Hurricane Laura hit Louisiana overnight, the winds appeared to push a riverboat casino in to the pillars supporting the Interstate 10 bridge.

Louisiana State Police Maj. Doug Cain said they received a report that the Isle of Capri’s riverboat casino broke from its mooring and was stuck against the Interstate 10 bridge in Lake Charles.

Early reports emerging in the wake of Hurricane Laura show less damage than what was feared.

[texas booster]

So it will be a few days before the casino gets pulled back to its pier, and gets everything reconnected.

All casinos, at least in this part of Louisiana, are on barges floating on the water. I believe that this casino received approval to build a casino on dry land.

The casinos have broken away before, and will do so again. Makes them more survivable in a storm like this.

[texas booster]

[texas booster]

Once more, with love and better HTML:

[dfwgator]

I must say, it seems like if it had to hit somewhere, it hit the best possible place in terms of limiting damage. If it had hit the Houston area, I can only imagine how bad it would have been.

[nesnah]

I’ll bet that’s a mess.

[texas booster]

All the folks in Houston need to postpone their bachelorette parties at least a week.

[dfwgator]

That’ll buff right out!

[ifinnegan]

“Early reports emerging in the wake of Hurricane Laura show less damage than what was feared.”

That’s good.

Everything is hyped as the end of the world nowadays.

[SierraWasp]

I knew this was gonna happen.. See #40 on thread of Kelly Ann Conway sayin POTUS might postpone tonights speech. I knew it back in 2009!!!

[Army Air Corps]

That gives a whole new meaning to a Floating Crap Game...

[plain talk]

“Everything is hyped as the end of the world nowadays.”

A hurricane with sustained winds of 150 mph can do catastrophic damage. I have seen up close what they can do. I hope anyone still living in Cameron evacuated. They are on the coast and have gotten leveled in previous storms.

[Pontiac]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvp3WE1ve4A

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””Early reports emerging in the wake of Hurricane Laura show less damage than what was feared.”””

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And in other news, the weather hypesters were having a cryfest this morning because Laura was not a damaging as they had hoped it would be.

[Gamecock]

There are two bridges I hate driving over, this one and up the road where I-10 crosses the Mississippi in Baton Rouge.

When heading east or west through LA I will drive a bit North and drive on 1-20.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Has anyone found any actual numbers on the wind speed as Laura came ashore?

From my observations of the past, actual wind speed readings are never published.

[Karl Spooner]

There’s a webcam focused on that bridge and people were driving over it last night during the apex of the storm. They all seemed to make it though. Everything from Semi trucks to small cars.

[Red Badger]

[Sirius Lee]

Geez! Marty and Wendy just paid for that, too.

[Tejas Rob]

>>There are two bridges I hate driving over, this one and up the road where I-10 crosses the Mississippi in Baton Rouge.<< My butt was puckered tight when I went over this ship channel bridge in Port Orange Texas years ago. I think they've built a new one since.

[Hildy]

I would never drive up this. This is a roller coaster, not a bridge.