Posted on 09/25/2005 6:14:46 AM PDT by Comstock1
A hurricane that hits hard working white folks is indeed a waste of MSM resources.
I found some info on the L'Auberge Casino in Lake Charles...
http://70.85.139.169/forums/83/ShowPost.aspx
Fighting erosion is fighting gravity and entropy. It's a costly losing battle.
A study in the 80s showed that not a single beach replenishment project the Corps of Engineers did on the east coast for decades lasted even 1/2 the supposed design length, since "storms" were not counted in the calculations. Anyone near the beach knows that most of the loss occurs during storms! Beach replenishment is lunacy...and that's what we're having taught to us again with this picture. :-(
But if you ask a geologist or engineer who says, "no, it's not going to work" and one who says, "I can make it work for $3 million"...who do you think people go to? :-(
I can't answer that but I can tell you that lots of folks in Texas need lots of help as well. My parents and I made a delivery to Corrigan, TX today after learning that they were in desperate need of supplies. The Salvation Army provided us with a truck and trailer full of water, baby supplies, and some food. Not nearly enough, but it was a start.
Here's an article about Jasper, TX. Has anyone seen this mentioned on the MSM?http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/09/27/20050927LDNjasper.html
Freepers, please help get some attention brought to these areas.
... in 1957 after Hurricane Audrey came through. There were bits and pieces of houses, boats, refrigerators, all miles inland to where the originally resided ...
There was also a school bus that had been swept off the road -- visible way out in the marsh. It was there for years after Audrey -- a poignant reminder of the tragedy.
Sulphur (my hometown) did better than just about anywhere else in the area, but it still looks like a war zone. Cameron Parish is pretty much gone. One thing I completely forgot about in all of this is the fact that one of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserves is out at the Hackberry salt domes. My cousin works there and he has been in touch with them (Boeing I think). They are having difficulty getting any crews in there to work the site. They have mainly been having to rely on the crews that were already there for the past few days. No word on damge to the SPR site itself, though I did hear mumblings about "salt water intrusion" problems. I didn't pursue it since we were busy trying to tie a generator into the house mains.
My mother's duplex only had some missing shingles and lots of branches of her trees. The other side of the duplex had a tree fallen on it.
Ditto for my sister-in-law's house--a tree on the boys' bedroom. Her parents have a tree on their house also, but it looked like no actual structural damage. Everybody else in my family pretty much escaped with minor damage. Two uncles have damaged barns, but their houses are intact. My cousin came home to find all of his pigs had survived, which was good because he had sold most of them just before the storm and they hadn't been picked up yet. He ran out of feed today and the owner of a local feed store who is stuck out of town told him how to break into the place so he could get more feed. It's that kind of place.
A piece of property I sold two years ago had 50% of the trees knocked down--about 40 trees including a dozen large oaks are now kindling. I had regretted actually selling until yesterday.
We brought three generators and 100 gallons of gas along with some food and water. The fact we came well stocked was in our favor in getting past the national guard roadblocks. My cousin and uncle were glad to see it.
We couldn't get into Cameron parish--they are even turning away most news crews. We are getting limited reports of the Hackberry area and it doesn't look good for our place near Dugas Landing--there is supposedly a picture floating around that shows water covering Joe Dugas Road from Hwy 27 to as far as can be seen.
After getting back my wife told me that her best friend's family has decided not to reopen the store in Holly Beach. The father is just to old to rebuild from scratch. I wonder how many other people will feel that way?
Overall things are better than we had feared--It looks like my Dad and I are gonna be the only ones in our family that lose out--the Hackberry place is probably gone. It's a shame: my Dad and his father built it in 1958. It somehow managed not to get a single drop of water in it-- 'til now.
But, my Dad feels like we have been blessed by God because our family has escaped so much of the potential harm. I couldn't possibly disagree.
The real problem is the desire to keep the Mississippi channeled. The Mississippi wants to move and meaner--look at the shape of the delta below New Orleans. This river doesn't just keep emptying in the same spot. The result is that the silt that should be continuously ditributed along the coast ends up getting stuck before it can do any good. Whcih means they also have the expense of dredging in many parts of the lower Mississippi.
Mother Nature is hard to foil in the long run.
"...who could be the first to see the ocean as we drove through High Island"....Dittoes here. The Bolivar penin. was one of the great things about growing up in Beaumont. Spent many a great weekend fishing, crabbing and frolicking in the surf (even if it is somewhat murky) at the family Beach House.
Was an awesome sight for a kid standing up in the back of a pickup truck to see the Gulf after topping the hill at High Island.
The other great thing about growing up in Beaumont was the easy availability of the clubs "across the river" in Vinton, La......Busters(.25cts mixed drinks during happy hour-it stood where the La. Tourist Center is now, The Big Oaks, where we went to dance and meet girls (and listen to the great band "The Boogie Kings") ($1.00 cover charge and .35ct. beer) and Lou Ann's for the older crowd. Had some great times over there and met some really hot Gals.
Its a shame that that area was hit so hard and devastated.
And the problem is, it's real people who suffer. Both the taxpayers and the homeowners. It's lunacy for a supposedly "scientifically modern" society to be building like this and encouraging it with collectivist enticements that are the exact opposite of what's smart!
I have a real good friend that lives on base at Ft. Polk and they were going to ride out the storm but I got an e-mail from her this morning and she and her 2 kids are staying in Florida w/ her parents b/c they have no power, no water and no school for at least 12 days or so.
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thanks !
Wow, interesting to hear about all that again... Did your family grab roadside watermelons on those trips? Crab in the canals off the intercostals? Throw crackers to seagulls off the ferry? Did you beg your parents to do the waterslide at Crystal? Is your favorite smell now Coppertone?
I vaguely remember hearing of those 25 cent cocktails in LA and of Busters, but never made the trip. I guess that I found enough alcohol and trouble in Texas before leaving right after graduation. I graduated in 1980 BTW.
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