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Rita Damage to SW Louisiana worse than being reported
Lake Charles.com Photos ^ | September 25, 2005

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: cameron; hurricane; katrina; lakecharles; louisiana; rita
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To: mwp99
Thanks for the insult.

Look, I don't mean it as a personal insult... but any reasonable person has got to expect that when they build a house on what is LITERALLY THE BACKSTOP for almost every Atlantic hurricane, they're going to lose their home someday. So buy insurance and enjoy the beach.

I'm just tired of hearing that this perfectly predictable disaster came as a surprise to anyone. I'm outraged at the fact that taxpayer money is being used to rebuild. Infrastructure I can understand, but private homes? Every month I have at least a second mortgage worth of taxes yanked out of my paychecks. Sure wish I could have a beach house... but no, I have to pay for people who are incapable of planning ahead.

-bc

281 posted on 09/26/2005 1:54:26 PM PDT by BearCub
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To: mabelkitty

We will probably see reports of needy people's sex change operations being paid for by the New Orleans disaster recovery funds.


282 posted on 09/26/2005 3:28:37 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: Flavius

My in-laws run a [the] Thai restaurant in Leesville. They kept open, sometimes without power, during the storm. I heard second hand that the wind was 60 mph gusting to 90, which frankly sounds a bit high based on what the forecasts were, but that things were basically O.K. I imagine there were lots of trees down. I tried checking the Leesville Daily Leader [newspaper] website, but they had nothing past last Thursday.


283 posted on 09/26/2005 6:38:10 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux ("I'll have the moo goo gai pan without the pan, and some pans.")
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To: Flavius

Well, now the Leader has some news on its website, and a lot of pictures of destruction, much of it from trees. It looks pretty bad to me, but they are apparently recovering.

http://www.leesvilledailyleader.com/


284 posted on 09/26/2005 6:43:47 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux ("I'll have the moo goo gai pan without the pan, and some pans.")
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To: beckysueb
Yes it is. The northeastern liberals think if it is south of the Mason Dixon line, it don't exist.

Except during a presidential election when they need the votes. Eh, sKerry? But the Breck Girl couldn't pull in enough.

285 posted on 09/26/2005 8:07:01 PM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: ex-Texan
350,000 displaced voters from Louisiana transplanted to other states

Just wait..., yet another reason to scream that properly identifying voters and making sure that they only VOTE ONCE is discriminatory!!!

286 posted on 09/26/2005 8:18:09 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: Smartaleck
The whole thing is sickening; people using the misery of others for political purposes.

They use everything for political purposes. Their sole purpose in life is to advance their agenda. Every breath they take is devoted to it.

287 posted on 09/26/2005 8:27:37 PM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: GregoryFul
We will probably see reports of needy people's sex change operations being paid for by the New Orleans disaster recovery funds.

Wouldn't surprise me.

Reminds me of a joke I was going to make about TS Rita... but I censored myself and didn't make it.

288 posted on 09/26/2005 8:57:47 PM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: elfman2

That used to be Holly Beach. I guess there might have been 100 or so full time residents. Everything else was either 2nd homes (beach houses) or rental property.


289 posted on 09/26/2005 9:15:01 PM PDT by fowb
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To: ex-Texan
As usual, the MSM is asleep or just out to lunch

They should also be investigating which banks held a lot of the leases within the area. Could be some major exposure for some.

290 posted on 09/26/2005 11:12:53 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: laz
Once again, they're caught with their pants down.

Also got caught with pants down for Andrew. Even were forced to upgrade the final rating, eventually.

291 posted on 09/26/2005 11:14:55 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: dirtboy
I'm sorry, but if you build on the beach in hurricane county, you should be prepared to lose it all.

I saw an MSM interview with one man who owned a property in a Hurricane exposed area. He said that you assume any investment on that land is a 10 year investment. You need to profit via an appropriately priced property renting. He was saying that if he lost it now, it would have lasted him 15 years. He was happy. I think though that he was located in Galveston.

292 posted on 09/26/2005 11:19:23 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: RDTF

I think it was on Fox that I heard where they said 100% of the buildings were destroyed, and 80% were totally GONE - disappeared.

Honore was talking and said that one building could probably be fixed - the townhall or courthouse - on stilts and tall ground.


293 posted on 09/26/2005 11:38:29 PM PDT by geopyg (Ever Vigilant, Never Fearful)
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To: fowb

Thanks. Here's a story of the last residents leaving Holly Beach. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/23/MNG64ESMQE1.DTL


294 posted on 09/27/2005 5:49:10 AM PDT by elfman2 (2 tacos short of a combination plate)
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295 posted on 09/27/2005 5:51:28 AM PDT by elfman2 (2 tacos short of a combination plate)
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To: Rennes Templar; Smartaleck
YUPPERS, Rita was a "white hurricane". It hit comunities of SW Louisiana, where the employment is "self employment" shrimpers, and others who work on the water ways culling seafood. The other is folks who are in the the O&G industry, from upstream to downstream and all the support in between.

Many don't understand all the various stages of oil and gas discovery down to refining and shipping final product. SW Louisiana is heavily involved in all phases of O&G.

The MSM will sit back and WAIT until gasoline prices and HEATING OIL, (remember the northeastern RABID articulate liberal democrats rely on HEATING OIL) and once a harsh winter sets in and these people have a new drum to beat, and BEAT it they will.

Rita and GW have been plotting this heating oil crisis, and all the white people who live in nthat area will be blamed for this plot too. Remember EVERY frick'in thing in America is a damn plot against black folk that vote domocrat...dontcha see?

296 posted on 09/27/2005 6:00:20 AM PDT by antivenom (If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!)
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To: Let's Roll

Yep...Hurricane Audrey in the '50s wiped Cameron, LA out, killing over 600 in the storm surge. But they built right back on the beach. Now we are supposed to be shocked that the storm took everything back out to sea again. Whatever is built back will wind up the same way...maybe in 2 years, 10 years or 50 years, but it will be flattened.


297 posted on 09/27/2005 6:05:54 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: kittymyrib
Yeah, I heard that about Audrey last night.

No more building on the beach or even where a storm surge could get them. Insurance companies won't insure for flood damage either at all or the premiums are out of sight. Then when something like this happens to enough people, their elected representatives make sure that the more prudent among us get stuck with the bill through our taxes, higher insurance premiums or both.

The grasshopper and the ant plays out continually in a "democracy".

298 posted on 09/27/2005 6:21:09 AM PDT by Let's Roll ( "Congressmen who ... undermine the military ... should be arrested, exiled or hanged" - A. Lincoln)
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To: Comstock1; fowb; kenth; easonc52; Jeff Head; alnick; backhoe; Let's Roll; Always Right
This place interests me because I spent lots of weekends near there on the Texas Bolivar peninsula as a kid.

Holly Beach Before

Holly Beach After

Other photos:

Holly Beach Erosion Project. (May need to be updated)

Holly Beach Christian Resort Photos and story of the owners leaving

299 posted on 09/27/2005 6:51:32 AM PDT by elfman2 (2 tacos short of a combination plate)
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To: jeffers; texas booster
I was wondering how Bolivar did. Here's a good Chronicle story about some High Island residents. At first I thought they were nuts for staying, considering they could have been trapped in a Cat 4, but I see that High Island is the highest coastal spot between Mobile AL and the Yucatan, 40 ft.

As a kid coming from Beaumont my family always contested who could be first to see the ocean as we drove through High Island.

300 posted on 09/27/2005 7:25:25 AM PDT by elfman2 (2 tacos short of a combination plate)
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