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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Yeah, well that building I show in my post was about two minutes walk from my house. | |||
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South of Shreveport here power out 45KW Kohler kicked in about 1 hour ago. | |||
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Her shop was about 10 blocks up Kirkman toward 210 from that building you posted. You probably passed by it a million times but it wasn't much of a landmark. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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I'm sorry, I had to: The pics look bad, but glad so far its not as bad as what they were predicting. 1/4 of Louisiana without power in August is not good though. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
In Ike, on the Bolivar Peninsula, even houses built on heavy wooden piers were wiped off the beach by the water. They now build them on deeply set, reinforced, concrete piers. That was probably Carla, which was in '61. I believe Carla still has the most intense winds recorded for a U.S. storm. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Funny Man |
^^^^^^  ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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Google fu shows it at 2919 Kirkman St Lake Charles, LA. Between Gulf and Craft, so youse was close! I need a hobby..... | |||
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45 KW? You must live in a mansion. I lost power during Ike and Rita. There's nothing like being in 95 degrees with 90% humidity and no power. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
First shot is West Prien Lake Road, just north of I-210, looking east. Second shot is Ryan Street, heading north. As you can see, some buildings are completely destroyed. Southern Louisiana in August with no electricity and therefore no air conditioning is no place to be. The only saving grace is that right now, all the mosquitoes have been blown right the Hell out of there. Once they start to breed in all the standing water, it's gonna be miserable. Growing up on the Gulf Coast, I had three lifetimes worth of tropical summer. If never again I felt the humid summer heat, it would be fine with me. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
My friends in Lake Charles fled to Houston and up by Shreveport before it hit. What a mess. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
Orange, Texas, just across the Texas/Louisiana border on Interstate 10, perhaps 30 miles from Lake Charles. Looks like they may have gotten it even worse. A tornado couldn't have done a better job. Very sad. Storms of this magnitude change the landscape. On one side of the home I grew up in was a huge- and I do mean huge stand of thick bamboo. Not little, reed-like bamboo trees, but bamboo shafts as thick as a man's arm. The stuff grew twenty feet high or more. I hated the stuff as a kid, because my father tasked me with trimming it back with a machete. In the tropical heat of Southern Louisiana, the stuff grew like topsy and it was miserable work, getting close in to it and hacking those huge bamboo shafts. Hated it, I hated it. But, now I realize what a magnificent thing was that bamboo forest, truly magnificent and beautiful. After Hurricane Rita went through there, it was all gone. These hurricanes change things. In the spring and fall when I slept with the windows of my bedroom open, the wind rustled through the bamboo leaves and I fell asleep to that sound many nights. Thinking of it, of all my family and that house and the bamboo all gone, I could cry. You don't know what you've got until it's gone. | |||
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| If you see me running try to keep up |
After Ike I helped some families with demo after the hurricane and flood. It's hard to describe the feeling when you turn onto a street and every possession people own is in a trash pile covering the entire front yard. It literally looks like a landfill. If I can find my dash cam video I'll post it. That particular neighborhood had 3-6 feet of water in the houses. I helped to clear out remaining debris and to clean some before mold started. It's absolutely devastating especially considering the family had no flood insurance and the father was sick and in the VA during the hurricane. I helped a co-worker demo after he had removed debris. Tearing out sheet rock, cabinets, tile in the South Texas heat. It's exhausting and depressing work. I know first hand what they are going through. | |||
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As if they don't have enough problems down there  A large fire erupted Thursday at a chemical plant outside the Louisiana city of Lake Charles following Hurricane Laura’s passage through the area earlier this morning. Images and videos of the blaze showed large plumes of smoke billowing over Interstate 10 and Gov. John Bel Edwards is now advising locals to stay out of the area. "There is a chemical fire in the Westlake/Moss Bluff/Sulphur area," he tweeted. "Residents are advised to shelter in place until further notice and close your doors and windows." Louisiana State Police say they are "working a hazardous material incident involving a chlorine leak originating from the BioLab chemical manufacturing facility in Westlake." BioLab’s Lake Charles plant was built in 1979 and manufactures trichloroisocyanuric acid, chlorinating granules and other chemicals used in such household cleaners as Comet bleach scrub and pool chlorine powder, according to the Associated Press. Both trichloroisocyanuric acid and chlorine are potentially acutely toxic to people and animals if ingested or inhaled. Chlorine gas, which can appear in the air as a greenish yellow cloud, was used as a chemical weapon in World War 1. It is a potent irritant to the eyes, throat and lungs. https://www.foxnews.com/us/hur...re-reportedly-erupts | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
That's the regional airport in LC. This is Holly Beach in Cameron Parish, south of Lake Charles. The body of water you see is the Gulf of Mexico. I can't imagine that anyone rode out the storm here. You'd have to have a death wish. My father told me when Hurricane Audrey passed through Cameron Parish in 1957, they were pulling bodies out of trees 12 or 15 feet in the air. Many of them didn't drown. They died from snake bite. Water Moccasins | |||
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| I have a very particular set of skills |
That's truly cringe worthy. Reminds me of that scene in Lonesome Dove where the guy gets attacked in the river by a nest of water moccasins. They've taken a beating in the south the past few years, hopefully they get back on the feet ASAP. Boss A real life Sisyphus... "It's not the critic who counts..." TR Exodus 23.2: Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong... Despite some people's claims to the contrary, 5 lbs. is actually different than 12 lbs. It's never simple/easy. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower |
The storm surge churns up the water and pisses off the snakes and if they run into you they are going to bite your ass. | |||
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A friend of mine who has lived on the Gulf Coast his entire life made an interesting remark. He said remembering past hurricanes is one way we keep track of time on the Coast. Each hurricane that comes reminds us of past storms, the memories of those who were important to us at the time and the things that happened. We have measured time here before/after Katrina. In Lake Charles in will be before/after Laura. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
Storm damage 3hrs north of Lake Charles (metro Shreveport) has left many without power and worse. One friend said the local power company told them the estimated fix time is currently September 2nd... Another had a neighbor's giant pine tree land on their master bathroom roof, uprooted the whole tree. Another near Barksdale AFB has a tree coming through their kitchen window now. There are others. My Lake Charles friends remain in Houston for now, fearing the worst. No one I know is physically hurt, only property damage and stress and such. All significant, just the same. | |||
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My mom was 11 years old when Aubrey hit. She has told me stories about the number of dead and how she saw flatbed trucks stacked with bodies to transport them to makeshift morgues. ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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