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Posted on 8/25/21 at 11:20 am to lsu777
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school is nice as hell or was, not sure if repaired yet.
but there is a reason why it sucks down there, been destroyed 3 times in last 16 years.
Yea South Cameron HS was 2A for a long time and had great football teams. They went from that to not even being able to field a football team at all and I think they are now a class C school
Posted on 8/25/21 at 11:23 am to stout
All those people moved to Grand Lake after Rita and took it on the chin there from Laura. Grand Lake was a class C school before Rita. Not sure what they are now but they have a football team where they didn't before 2005.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 11:27 am to stout
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Yea South Cameron HS was 2A
Always some tough sum-bitches. We were in their district.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 11:29 am to lsu777
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But nobody is going to move there as it is an hour drive to anything. Plus its expensive to build and insure down there.
think what sea level rise will do to them
Posted on 8/25/21 at 11:57 am to JAGuyHeh
Gum Cove is paradise. 
Posted on 8/25/21 at 12:03 pm to Prominentwon
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Because nobody wants to live in a fricking swamp.
There aren't really many swamps in Cameron Parish. The word you're thinking of is "marsh", champ.
This post was edited on 8/25/21 at 12:05 pm
Posted on 8/25/21 at 12:19 pm to lsu777
Johnson Bayou and South Cameron schools have fewer that 300 kids K-12. Both schools cost north of $50,000,000 to build excluding any maintenance. Total enrollment maybe half of that post Laura/Delta/Freeze.
The parish made a deal with the Devil trying to repopulate lower Cameron parish after Rita and they failed miserably. They will spend millions on maintenance and insurance for those vacant buildings after the last child graduates. South Cameron people are hardy and stubborn.
The parish made a deal with the Devil trying to repopulate lower Cameron parish after Rita and they failed miserably. They will spend millions on maintenance and insurance for those vacant buildings after the last child graduates. South Cameron people are hardy and stubborn.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 12:22 pm to Kenner 23
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South Cameron people are hardy and stubborn.
That's why they still live there after mother nature told them to leave.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 1:43 pm to Kenner 23
quote:Good way of putting it. The government spent tons of money taking care of... the government.
The parish made a deal with the Devil
That's why practically the only things left down there are government buildings, built to last for centuries, serving hardly anyone now.
They should have built cheap metal buildings that could be replaced at little expense as needed. One day, those big, fancy government buildings will be great fishing spots out in the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 2:03 pm to JAGuyHeh
What's the relevance?
This post was edited on 8/25/21 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 8/25/21 at 2:31 pm to Areddishfish
quote:why can't you people make plural words instead of possessive words? is it that hard to simply add an "s" to a word?
And zero Walmart’s
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Posted on 8/25/21 at 2:58 pm to redstick13
quote:Class B but yes, no football until recently following the influx of residents from lower Cameron parish.
Grand Lake was a class C school before Rita.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 3:09 pm to LSUgusto
“That's why practically the only things left down there are government buildings, built to last for centuries, serving hardly anyone now. “
Parish sold that building to Venture Global for their administrative building. They may rent a piece of it now, not entirely sure.
They could’ve flown the kids from lower Cameron and Johnson bayou to hackberry and grand lake in a helicopter m-f cheaper than building those schools.
Hackberry is getting a new school but it will be much less than JB or LC.
Parish sold that building to Venture Global for their administrative building. They may rent a piece of it now, not entirely sure.
They could’ve flown the kids from lower Cameron and Johnson bayou to hackberry and grand lake in a helicopter m-f cheaper than building those schools.
Hackberry is getting a new school but it will be much less than JB or LC.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 3:11 pm to arcalades
Walmark's
Posted on 8/25/21 at 3:23 pm to Tigeralum2008
One of the highest teacher pay rates in the state and been that way since pre WWII
Posted on 8/25/21 at 3:30 pm to JDPndahizzy
Same for me early 70's. They never played dirty at all, just tough bulls used to working cattle.
Back then the two largest cattle producing counties in the USA were Cameron and Vermillion parishes.
Back then the two largest cattle producing counties in the USA were Cameron and Vermillion parishes.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 7:40 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
But the pontoon bridge is no longer since Shell shutdown its operations there
Posted on 8/25/21 at 7:43 pm to lsu777
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ut there is a reason why it sucks down there, been destroyed 3 times in last 16 years
Or foregoing a billion dollars in property taxes means you don’t even have enough money to fix the infrastructure that the companies destroy. Thank ITEP
Posted on 8/25/21 at 7:58 pm to Prominentwon
It's been years but a lot of the houses that look like dumps with crap all over the yard have many a coffee can stuffed with hundred dollar bills. Cash is king down there Back when Cameron was a booming offshore service port, most everyone working in the oilfield, but had cattle at home, trapped, guided, crabbed for cash which was never reported.
There used to be a big problem when white shrimp were running in the fall. Ships coming up the channel would end up ramming some stupid mofo in his pontoon boat type with butterfly nets. If he sued and it went to court, the first question would be "How much did you file with the IRS on earnings last year?" Case was always dropped ASAP. Cash is never reported.
Also back when there were several poggie plants down in Cameron, the local fisherment and poggie fishermen (from Carolinas) would get into some hellacious barroom brawls, filet knives would come out since they all carried them sheaved off their belts.
Sheriff Dept would respond with black jacks knocking as many out as they could before sorting out what happened. FBI agents was often called down to testify due "civil rights" case from one of the poggie fishermen. FBI agent would always testify that it is like the Old West down there so the sheriff deputies were not being prejudiced because the knock everyone out that they could.
Cameron has been on life support business wise since the oil crash of the mid 80's
FTR, it is a deepwater port, Fourchon isn't really one. Before all the LNG, there is a hole in the Calcasieu River where the old river channel coming out of Big Lake meets with the dredged ship channel. Back in the early 80's it was something like 1200 feet long and no shallower than 80 feet deep. The favorite loading place for semisubmersible heavylift ships to load or offload jackup rigs.
I have been on this the Mighty Servant 1 when it was new and loaded a rig down there. it was the biggest and baddest at the time, they are much larger now.
LINK
There used to be a big problem when white shrimp were running in the fall. Ships coming up the channel would end up ramming some stupid mofo in his pontoon boat type with butterfly nets. If he sued and it went to court, the first question would be "How much did you file with the IRS on earnings last year?" Case was always dropped ASAP. Cash is never reported.
Also back when there were several poggie plants down in Cameron, the local fisherment and poggie fishermen (from Carolinas) would get into some hellacious barroom brawls, filet knives would come out since they all carried them sheaved off their belts.
Sheriff Dept would respond with black jacks knocking as many out as they could before sorting out what happened. FBI agents was often called down to testify due "civil rights" case from one of the poggie fishermen. FBI agent would always testify that it is like the Old West down there so the sheriff deputies were not being prejudiced because the knock everyone out that they could.
Cameron has been on life support business wise since the oil crash of the mid 80's
FTR, it is a deepwater port, Fourchon isn't really one. Before all the LNG, there is a hole in the Calcasieu River where the old river channel coming out of Big Lake meets with the dredged ship channel. Back in the early 80's it was something like 1200 feet long and no shallower than 80 feet deep. The favorite loading place for semisubmersible heavylift ships to load or offload jackup rigs.
I have been on this the Mighty Servant 1 when it was new and loaded a rig down there. it was the biggest and baddest at the time, they are much larger now.
LINK
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