re: Remembering Hurricane Audrey June 27, 1957

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How do you get this? Stream or DVD?

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I don’t see it available anywhere right now, but I caught it on a local NOLA channel a few years ago on a weekend morning. It was probably an anniversary of Audrey’s landfall, June 27th.

If you have a streaming package you could try searching and see if it’s offered. Sometimes they list from other platforms for a fee.

My mom was a teenager living in Beaumont when Audrey hit. She used to tell the story of her and her parents driving over a couple of weeks after the storm to check on some family land in that area.

Said the main thing that she noticed was how the fields were all stripped of marsh grass. She said her father told her that the nutria had gorged themselves on the grass after the storm.

I'm not sure if that's accurate or if the storm just wiped out the marshes, but it's one story about Audrey I always remember when it's brought up.

I drove through Cameron Parish, Johnson’s Bayou and Holly Beach, a few weeks ago. There’s nothing there, a couple of convenience stores and a few homes here and there.

Mom road it out in a sugar mill warehouse ; they were letting everyone in who needed help , the white and colored signs need not apply .

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South Cameron was definitely done for after Laura.

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It was on life support after Rita & Ike and the offshore oil industry shifting to deep water. Laura was the final nail. Venture Global LNG is big employer, but I think the majority of the staff live in northern Cameron Parish or Lake Charles. The population of the parish is down over 50% since 2000. I would imagine the Cameron/Creole area has lost far more than 50%.

Damn I am old as dirt but have heard of it.

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Of particular note is the Cameron Parish Courthouse which seems to have been built to survive nuclear war. Seriously, whoever designed and built that thing deserves recognition. It’s survived everything Mother Nature could throw at it.

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Anything of any weight has a lot of friction piles under it. The area is basically floating turf. With a partner we had looked at putting in a storage/salvage yard for all the production platforms and jackets being removed from the Gulf after field depletion. There was already a pad onsite to put a 500 ton crane. Just a lot of crane matts and it would punch through the top. The concrete pad over numerous pilings was put there by a construction company refitting jackup rigs in the 1990's to meet new regs We were with the Henry brothers who handle the Henry Davis Trust which owns most of the land in the immediate area. The Henrys all moved to near Longville decades ago. They have summer pastures there for the cattle on 190 a few miles east of 171.