I think I know where you mean — Beaumont/Port Arthur? The media is after name recognition. I remember after Rita it was the small Texas towns that suffered the most but they didn’t make the national news.
My brother, who was part of the Katrina recovery effort, opines that the media likes to cover places with operational restaurants and hotel rooms, rather than places where they’ll have to live in primitive conditions — thus the coverage of New Orleans as opposed to the more devastated coastal areas after Katrina.
CNN was just showing rescuers transferring someone from the bed of a pickup truck onto a stretcher...I didn’t see an explanation of where, why, etc...
Golden Triangle...... Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange