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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 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
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Lake Charles is now also recognized as the most humid city in the USA
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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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Posted on 8/27/22 at 4:57 pm to stout
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Lake Charles is now also recognized as the most humid city in the USA
Gross! We have to contain it before it spreads.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:00 pm to stout
As Hurricane Laura passed we had posters saying "LaUrA iSnT aS bAd As RiTa"
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:03 pm to The Boat
Mesovorts were doing work in Laura. The Hurricane Track crew did a damn fine job catching video of the mesos in the eyewall as Laura did that damage.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:06 pm to stout
Not just LC. The entire western third of the state was fricked to one degree or another.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:08 pm to stout
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?
You know what they plan on putting up at that location?
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:10 pm to stout
Remember watching through the night.
The radar dome destroyed is always something I remember.
The radar dome destroyed is always something I remember.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:14 pm to stout
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 on 8/27/22 at 5:17 pm to The Boat
And don't forget the argument that ensued after Laura had passed over whether the surge threat was overblown by the NHC. People were saying that it didn't verify to the extent of justifying the NHC's language in their discussions leading to landfall.
Then, this was included with the final report:
That is the high water mark in the shower of a second floor bathroom. That surge was measured at 17.1' in Creole.
Then, this was included with the final report:
That is the high water mark in the shower of a second floor bathroom. That surge was measured at 17.1' in Creole.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:17 pm to SouthernChick
0/10. Did not enjoy
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:18 pm to stout
I’ll never forget what the city looked like the day after. I still have PTSD.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:19 pm to stout
Will never forget! My neighbors tree fell on my house.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:23 pm to redstick13
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You know what they plan on putting up at that location?
That area will sell for top dollar being it’s situated right on a little bayou. I can see a nice sit down restaurant doing well. Plenty of nice hotels, L’auberge, and the Golden Nugget are in the vicinity so that dump should have been torn down years ago.
This post was edited on 8/27/22 at 5:26 pm
Posted on 8/27/22 at 5:29 pm to sledgehammer
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That area will sell for top dollar being it’s situated right on a little bayou. I can see a nice sit down restaurant doing well. Plenty of nice hotels, L’auberge, and the Golden Nugget are in the vicinity so that dump should have been torn down years ago.
There are still two other gross hotels there that are usually filled with methheads. Those need to come down too for that area to attract anything worth a damn
Posted on 8/27/22 at 6:05 pm to stout
Yeah, I guess the Candlewood and the other hotel next to that lot are still waiting for hurricane insurance money. The four hotels across the street look nice and are always packed when I drive by in the mornings.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 6:11 pm to stout
I was in Baltimore on business last week. They never heard of Hurricane Laura or Lake Charles.
Our destruction is regional news, never national.
Our destruction is regional news, never national.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 6:15 pm to stout
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 on 8/27/22 at 6:23 pm to sledgehammer
quote:Those four hotels should throw in together on a bayou-side bar & grill overlooking the bayou right there. It's a nice part of the bayou that would get and see steady boat traffic.
The four hotels across the street
Posted on 8/27/22 at 6:37 pm to GeauxGoose
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Several people froze to death in trailers around here.
I don’t remember hearing that, but I’ll take your word for it. How does that happen though? If it’s that cold inside, wear layers or get in bed with plenty of blankets on top. The coldest my place got during the freeze was only 42. I didn’t turn on the heat because I wanted to see if I could rough it like on Alone.
Posted on 8/27/22 at 6:56 pm to stout
Never thought I would see anything worse than Rita, then came Laura
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