well duh...
been sitting here going over the NOAA imagery for about two hours, and in the back of my head thinking that the next move is to establish an accurate time for landfall, all the while staring at a map that I plotted the 0200 just offshore, and 0300 just onshore, position on myself...
0238 eyeballs to be right on the money.
Worst to best:
Holly Beach is gone. Of the 4 major east west streets, the one nearest the ocean is gone. No sign of pavement, (might be under sand) no sign of foundations, no structures or sign of structures along that street. The west end of town all four of the streets disappear under sand and water, and in the middle of town, about three quarters of the foundations remain, while the other quarter shows only small lakes where the foundations used to be. Out of hundreds of visible foundations, at most I could count 8 structures that are throwing a shadow. Everything north of the highway was still underwater.
Cameron fared a little bit better. Most structures still have foundations but little else. There are structures still standing, including houses, but commercial buildings seems to have fared better on the whole. A trailer park, housing edition, or some other arrangement of streets resembling a ladder NW of town was either never developed or else no sign of whatever was once there exists any longer. As of the NOAAA aerial photography pass, everything except the highway was under water.
Oak Grove is inaccessible, a very few houses still standing, most just bare foundations, and it appears that half to three quarters of the commercial buildings are still standing. The scholl seems to have fared pretty well but it. like all of the town except the road itself is flooded.
In Creole, the highway west towards Cameron is still above water, but the crossroads and the road in the other three directions is not. Roughly three quarters of the visible structures seem to be largely intact, but with the flooding, bare foundations are not visible. There are two residences that have been shifted from their foundations partially blocking the road just north of town.
In Grand Chenier, the structures visible are about 75% largely intact, but there are about as many driveways that lead to nothing visible above the flood as there are driveways that lead to houses.
In North Island, a handfull of houses appear to be largely intact but flooded, though most of the area is underwater with nostructures, if any existed there, visible.
Sabine and Sabine Pass seem to have fared well. There is extensive flooding, and perhaps 25% of the structures visible have sustained structural damage, mostly roof loss.
The Sabine Pass Lighthouse is sill standing, with no way to tell whether it is functional or not.
Thanks (from a dedicated lurker) for all of your hard work on this thread.
A couple of questions that come to mind, reading your damage report --
1)Is "pier-and-beam" construction used much in this part of the state(s)?
2) If so, how stable are "pier-and-beam" houses that have had the piers underwashed by flooding?
I guess what I'm wondering is if the "still-standing" structures are as untouched as they might appear from a distance?