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Today is the 2 year anniversary of Hurricane Laura wrecking Lake Charles

Posted on 8/27/22 at 4:44 pm
Posted by stout
Smoking Crack with Hunter Biden
Member since Sep 2006
167767 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 4:44 pm
Laura was the start of a miserable year of weather for LC.

2 hurricanes, a freeze, and a 100 year flood







Lake Charles is now also recognized as the most humid city in the USA



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Overall, Lake Charles, Louisiana, finished as the nation's most humid city. Jackson and Meridian, Mississippi, came in second and third, respectively.



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This post was edited on 8/27/22 at 4:44 pm
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
55307 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 4:57 pm to
quote:

Lake Charles is now also recognized as the most humid city in the USA

Gross! We have to contain it before it spreads.
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164587 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:00 pm to
As Hurricane Laura passed we had posters saying "LaUrA iSnT aS bAd As RiTa"

Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98568 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:06 pm to
Not just LC. The entire western third of the state was fricked to one degree or another.
Posted by redstick13
Lower Saxony
Member since Feb 2007
38685 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:08 pm to
Still a ways to go but the area is starting to look somewhat normal again. They finally tore down several eyesores along 210 recently, including the motel 6.

You know what they plan on putting up at that location?
Posted by fightin tigers
Downtown Prairieville
Member since Mar 2008
73729 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:10 pm to
Remember watching through the night.

The radar dome destroyed is always something I remember.
Posted by SouthernChick
Member since Jun 2013
402 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:14 pm to
Call me a sap, but I get emotional when I see old news reels of the devastation of our city in the days after Laura. The worry about my SO because he had to stay behind, the worry about the state of my home while being 6 hours away, the nearly 4 weeks of no electricity, and the many months of rebuilding all come to my mind. It was definitely the most difficult of times I have ever experienced.
Posted by CatholicLSUDude
Member since Aug 2018
764 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:18 pm to
I’ll never forget what the city looked like the day after. I still have PTSD.
Posted by sledgehammer
SWLA
Member since Oct 2020
3461 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:19 pm to
Will never forget! My neighbors tree fell on my house.
Posted by DiamondDog
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2019
10677 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 6:11 pm to
I was in Baltimore on business last week. They never heard of Hurricane Laura or Lake Charles.

Our destruction is regional news, never national.
Posted by GeauxGoose
Nonya
Member since Dec 2006
2521 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 6:15 pm to
I'm in Pineville. We really lucked out with Laura although it didn't feel like during the storm. I've never been so close to the eye, but our 80 mph gust winds were nothing like the 130 mph gusts that deridder and leesville felt. That whole area looked like a bomb went off afterwords. As far as the freeze, that was some crazy shite too. We were stuck in our house for almost a week. Several people froze to death in trailers around here.
Posted by LSUEnvy
Hou via Lake Chas
Member since May 2011
12117 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 6:56 pm to
Never thought I would see anything worse than Rita, then came Laura
Posted by AlwysATgr
Member since Apr 2008
16635 posts
Posted on 8/27/22 at 11:51 pm to
Worst hurricane damage I'd ever seen except for the MS Gulf Coast after Katrina.

Extreme Hurricane Laura Footage

However, regarding humidity I can think of several places that regularly have higher dew points than Lake Charles:

Belle Chase, Houma, Merritt Island, FL, Matagorda, Port Aransas. Houma had an 86F DP reading last year.
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