Rita Damage to SW Louisiana worse than being reported

Lake Charles.com Photos ^ | September 25, 2005

[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

[Comstock1]

Even the governor of Louisiana is looking at Rita as a distraction from getting over Katrina. When all is said and done, it will be Rita that has left the biggest scar on Louisiana.

[Flavius]

Does anyone know how did Fort Polk LA area fare.

Thank you.

[backhoe]

Clickable:

http://forum.lakecharles.com/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/14/t/000023

[backhoe]

Just Damn!

The aftermath of Hurricane Rita is seen over Campron, La., in this aerial photo made in a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter

[Let's Roll]

When I read on FR last night that the CG was rescuing the stranded in SW LA yesterday my first thought was good grief - does no one learn - I mean how isolated are these people?

Rita basically "threaded" her way up the stateline and its relatively unpopulated area but of course there are going to be some communities and people living there - just not millions.

[dgallo51]

You wouldn't expect Jerry Rivers to venture away from his party at the Holiday Inn, would you? What a worthless correspondent! Thanks for the link…that's New Orleans w/o the chemical sewage.

[Let's Roll]

Now that is devastation. Looks like a town that was literally built on the beach.

[The Mayor]

OMG!

[G.Mason]

" ... When all is said and done, it will be Rita that has left the biggest scar on Louisiana."

I doubt that.

It will be Nagin, Blanco, Landrieu, and the NO police, with a little gun grabbing and the incessant whining of Geraldo and Shepard Smith tossed in for flavor.

[GummyIII]

FYI....

[Sally'sConcerns]

Over on the board you made into a clickable link, they're saying that's Cameron and not Campron...as usual MDM gets it wrong again.

[Comstock1]

Thanks. My HTML isn't up to snuff.

[Sally'sConcerns]

hmmmph! I see the MSM aren't the only one's afflicted with typo-finger. MDM=MSM

[GummyIII]

Slide Show

[backhoe]

Yes- follow the link, and go to page 2 ( scroll to bottom, look for "page 1 2" )... it's really ghastly.

[Smartaleck]

Not enough coverage? Perhaps there wasn't enough blacks involved in the devastation?

[Comstock1]

Because of costal erosion over the last few decades the beach has literally gone from hundreds of yards away to practically on the front porch. The irony here is that Rita will have reversed years of work to improve the erosion around this area of the coast.

[kitkat]

***Thanks. My HTML isn't up to snuff.***

You seem to have done it right, everything you needed was there, and on a separate line. I'm trying to figure out why your URL didn't automatically turn into a clickable link. Maybe someone else can tell you why your computer failed to do it.

[alnick]

Now that is devastation. Looks like a town that was literally built on the beach.

It looks to me like it was a bare beach before the hurricane. I don't see any rubble.

[The Mayor]

I just went thru the whole thread and clicked on every link.

My God what a mess. God help those people.
All I'm hearing is from Tx and NO, this area need help quickly.

[onyx eyes]

I love ....Love .... your name! (I am soooo jealous!)
Like; why didn't I think of that? Backhoe, I mean....

By the way what do freepers think ...should we set a certain time of day and all of us send MSM an email of the picture of the 145 buses sitting submerged next to the superdome and only 1 1/2 mi. away from said superdome?

[RayChuang88]

From that picture, what else do you expect when you have no seawall to protect from the storm surges?

[Let's Roll]

Thanks for the coastal erosion info - I was beginning to think that no one in LA had any sense at all.

[backhoe]

I just went thru the whole thread and clicked on every link. My God what a mess. God help those people. All I'm hearing is from Tx and NO, this area need help quickly.

I was surprised at how much damage and flooding there is- it almost makes NOLA look less harmed by comparison.

[Dan Nunn]

I'm pretty sure if you use any HTML whatsoever, the auto-linking is disabled and you have to do it manually.

<a href="http://www.location.com/page.html">Link caption</a>

and optionally add target="_blank" to make the link pop up in a new window:

<a href="http://www.location.com/page.html" target="_blank">Link caption</a>

[backhoe]

I love ....Love .... your name! (I am soooo jealous!) Like; why didn't I think of that? Backhoe, I mean...

The story behind that is more pedestrian & prosaic than you'd think- when I signed up here, all the nick's I'd had on other boards were taken.

I happened to be welding brackets on my backhoe, and in frustration, tried "backhoe"... viola! It went through.

[tiki]

The MSM is in and around Houston and Port Arthur and NO so the focus will remain on those places. With Katrina you heard very little about Mississippi and if Barbour hadn't been on news programs you wouldn't have heard as much as you did.

[janetjanet998]

where is that town i can't find it on the map..how may people did it have less then 100 i assume

[The Mayor]

I agree. Isn't this Bayou country? I heard 4000 have been rescued by helicopter off roof tops.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

Take another look...after your morning coffee.

[backhoe]

I'm not sure where it is- the forum is "LakeCharles.com » Hurricane Rita » Damage Reports » Anyone have Pictures" so I guess it is in the area.

[kitkat]

http://forum.lakecharles.com/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/14/t/000023

Dan if this link works, it did so because I copied and pasted it from comstock's URL. If it worked for me, it should have worked for comstock.

[TNdandelion]

I've always wanted to live right on the beach. A few more hurricanes like these and Memphis will be a beachfront community! So sad.

[Comstock1]

I don't want to take anything away from Port Arthur. They got hit just as hard as anybody.

I live in Austin and my Dad drove from Beaumont, TX to stay with me. Most of my other SW LA relatives fled to the Shreveport area. Now we can't get any news of damage and the MSM isn't reporting.

I understand that there aren't any huge population centers here, but if they could make it to Beaumont then Lake Charles is only 45 minutes down the road.

This is simply a case of some producers saying "Lake Charles, Cameron Parish? Never heard of them. Next story."

I do give some credit to Fox for having Rick Leventhal there. When I saw him there I was then convinced that it was gonna be bad. He only seems to pop up when the S**t hits the fan.

[bert]

Fox has a reporter on the street presenting the damage in considerable detail.

OOOps you said MSM. Fox News reports truth and is not a part of the MSM.

[sully777]

... the incessant whining of Geraldo and Shepard Smith tossed in for flavor.

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Topic: FoxNews

Shep sounds like those professional mourners used in the Middle East. "We're doomed. No one loves us here (off camera:where's our remote?). We're done for here in Fort Arthur...Port Arthur...hand me another *&^* hat!"

Geraldo in body waders looking for spot work as the Gorton's Fisherman or an extra at the next Decadance Parade.

And surprisingly, Neil Cavuto pushing his guests (esp. his retired buddy from GE) with hysteria over oil refinery destruction. Damn Neil, it's not like you have money invested in oil futures while you report this...hmmmmm??? Quit causing a illusionary panic.

I've actually stopped watching Fox because of Katrina and Rita. It's FReeping and the Weather Channel for me.

[ducks1944]

Katrine is to Mississippi and Alabama what the Pentagon and plane down in Penn. is to WTC.
To hear Media tell it New Orleans is the only one hit by Katrine. But Mississippi was hit much worse than New Orleans. This a fact but not for the Media.

[Comstock1]

The name of the town is "Cameron". It is the parish seat for Cameron Parish. The total population of the town is probably less than 5000, but I couldn't find any quick facts on the town.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

**It's FReeping and the Weather Channel for me**

Yeppers.

[Dan Nunn]

True. I think the reason why it didn't work for Comstock is because he must have used HTML code somewhere in his post. For instance, if I make this bold by using HTML, it will no longer convert links to HTML within the post. Example:

http://forum.lakecharles.com/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/14/t/000023

[Comstock1]

Yeah. "< p >" to separate paragraphs. I think the mystery is solved.

[George from New England]

Well Rita affected mostly white people.

Move along now. Nothing is needed from the feds here.

Signed MSM.

[Jeff Head]

More devastation from Rita.

[OC_Steve]

Anyone know when the star studded telethon will be on for the victims on Rita? Kidding, but somewhat serious as there are people in SWLA and SE Texas that have lost their homes due to wind and flooding. Is Sean Penn bailing his boat in Port Arthur? Probably not.

[Jeff Head]

See my post 43.

[hombre_sincero]

"Looks like a town that was literally built on the beach."

Most countries around the world do NOT allow anyone to live near a beach. It is called common sense.

Americans are sadly lacking in common-sense since FDR and his socialist friends took over the nation's "education" and converted it over to re-education propaganda centers - no need to actually LEARN anything.

Maybe this would actually teach a lesson? I doubt that many have the intelect to realize that it was THEIR fault they were 'devastated'.

knee-jerks ... turn on you tears now about - "it aint there fault ' "yada yada yada" as your hero would say.

[elfman2]

" It looks to me like it was a bare beach before the hurricane. I don't see any rubble."

That’s what I thought too. I used to work at 50 miles form there, and there are lots of beach that doesn’t look much different from that. But I noticed that the photo file name had the word “medium” in it. I tried replacing it with the word large. No luck. Then big, and found this:

You can see 4 rows of beach cabin remains separated by streets.

[Always Right]

It looks to me like it was a bare beach before the hurricane. I don't see any rubble.

Without a before picture, there is no way to see what kind of damage was or was not done.

[elfman2]

"Most countries around the world do NOT allow anyone to live near a beach. "

Untrue. It’s also called freedom. (And flood and windstorm insurance.)

[A Mississippian]

As someone else said, CAMERON, LA. It looks like a little community between the the beach and a lake about 25 miles southeast of Port Arthur. Best I can guess (using low resolution Google Earth images) is the photo is looking west along State Hwy 27 where Hwy 80 splits off.