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• Cameron Parish: The phone lines are down.
• Evangeline Parish: There are heavy winds, and no damage assessment has been completed yet.
• Jefferson Davis Parish: There is flooding, extensive damage and looting in Jennings. Residents are trapped. Many downtown businesses are damaged. The police department is without power.
• Lafayette Parish: Roads are blocked by fallen trees. There are power outages in the city of Lafayette and the parish. The Vermilion River through Lafayette is running north, instead of south, due to heavy storm surge.
• Terrebonne Parish: Crews are unable to get to trapped residents. Seven to eight feet of water throughout the parish.

• Vermilion Parish: There is flooding south of Louisiana State Route 14 and downed trees and power outages. Search and rescue is underway. Eight feet of water has been reported south of Erath.

If I hear the words "not as bad as expected" or "dodged a bullet" again today I am going to lose it. Hello MSM, hello FEMA - there's a freakin' mess in Louisiana and it is way too early to be celebrating!

Keep in mind, Cameron Parish is right where the eye came ashore.

There is a big difference between hitting Houston and hitting these small, low-lying areas in southern LA. The flooding was a given in these areas simply because of where they are and their proximity to sea-level.

I don't think people think it's insignificant, just not the doomsday we thought we might have on our hands earlier in the week. I, for one, could not imagine a second major US city (4th largest even!), laid to waste.

If I hear the words "not as bad as expected" or "dodged a bullet" again today I am going to lose it.

Amazing, isn't it? I get a sense of apathy from the MSM in Rita's wake, not the frenzy we saw after NOLA started flooding. There simply isn't much that serves their agenda for them to exploit, besides "The Great Texas Traffic Jam".

Meanwhile, GOM seems determined to reclaim all Louisiana real estate south of Interstate 10.

Grim report this morning.

Cameron and Audrey are forever linked in my mind. Just awful.

All those lovely soutern parishes. I love driving down there with the local radio stations, some still have DJ's speaking French. The sites of the wonderful Dave Robichaux books, Jamie Burke is such a fine writer. It is sad. I hope they recover.