Prayers from Panama City, FL. These hurricanes are no joke. As a guy who stayed during Hurricane Michael, and literally witnessing somebody’s house getting thrown in the air, it’s so sad to see the destruction. In Panama City we still have a lot of damage and fallen trees not picked up. Hoping for the best for the people affected by Hurricane Laura ❤️❤️
Michael was a tough storm. Downtown Panama City did not even get the strongest part. Mexico Beach did and looked worse than Holly Beach. Then you had Dorian on Abaco Island which was way stronger than Michael even. There was one stretch where not a structure was standing.
I'm 60 years old and have lived in Florida for 30 years and Gulfport Mississippi for 5 .People know we have hurricanes and yet seem surprised everytime a hurricane hits.
@@lindabranager1565 Now that was a real bad hurricane. I was in the Seabees for 5 years stationed in Gulfport in the late 70s early 80s and still seen some damage.
They lost a lot of homes in the last big Hurricane. It is city code to raise your house on stilts. Those who couldn't afford to, left and didn't return.I camped at Holly Beach a few years ago and a shrimp fisherman filled me in. He said raising his house on stilts cost more than his house did to build. The people who live there mostly own shrimp boats or work on the oil rigs off the coast.
Sondra Vickers trust me it is live in westlake at one point thought the city was gonna explode due to the plants don’t know what is going no service really no power still have water can’t believe this shit it’s like an ovie
Disasters everywhere from coast to coast. Natural disaster or economic disaster...the results are the same.. Homeless people everywhere, Tents everywhere, RVs everywhere.
This reminds me of driving through Port St Joe upto Panama City Easter 2019. Very similar scenes to this only much worse as most of the houses on stilts were ripped apart, and for mile upon mile. I'm a Brit so we just don't have weather events like this, although we are getting pretty historic floods in places every few years as the norm nowadays but not with such widespread damage as I saw in the Panhandle after Michael tore through it. I've never in my life seen so many snapped trees either, thousands upon thousands of them, as far as the eye can see. Panama City was not a pretty sight either, so many severely damaged properties and all this was over half a year after it happened, I hope it's looking better up there now. Hats off to the southern folk that have to endure these enormous storms year in year out around the Gulf and down the Eastern Seaboard, you're a hardy lot and you're prepared to suffer greatly for that year round warmth lol!
Media lied about it? Literally went through this hurricane about 100 miles from where this video took place. The intensity of the wind was remarkable. The amount of damage we had to deal with today was unbelievable. Perhaps you shouldn’t speak on things you know nothing about.
I literally have instruments that measure wind speed. We were getting 80-90 mph gusts 100 miles East of the eye. My friends and family that live closer to where the eye made landfall all have extensive damage to their homes. This wasn’t some media driven event. I am telling you as someone that experienced it and knows countless others that went through this as well. Hell, people I know that are several hundred miles inland still experienced 100+mph gusts where the eye crossed. Those towns will be without power for weeks. I get aggravated with this conspiracy nonsense when it involves very real tragedies.
A thought as a native Louisiana: Cameron Parish is the roughly the size of Delaware in terms of area and there are less than 7,000 residents in the entire parish. There are no incorporated towns or cities. The village of Cameron is the Parish Seat and has less than 500 residents. Maybe it’s time to relocate these people and dissolve the Parish as a political entity. Maybe absorb it into Calcasieu Parish and have the entire parish as a public beach and wildlife refuge with hunting permits issued by LDWF. Just a thought. They’ve been flattened by Rita, Ike, Humberto, Harvey, and now Laura In just the last 15 years.
@@carlfreeman795 oh for sure with those winds but the surge was really high there and there is very little to no terrain to stop the ocean. Super flat area
@@riverflyswatter Lol either way hurricane season is still going on.... My concern is safety of those within those paths they travel..... But aye thanks anyways
@@ladyv301 There's two more tropical waves off of Cabo Verde island. A couple of days ago, it had a 20% chance of formation, and just a few hours ago, they said it now has a 30% chance of formation. I pray Lord that it doesn't turn into something big and catastrophic.
I thought that was the purpose of using a trailer? When storm is on the way, pack up, hook up truck and drive away? Not leave it there for the storm to scatter it all over your neighbors yard???
Someone commented on a post yesterday, that said they were stuck in Holly Beach.. I'm hoping he got out🙏 He said at the time the water was too high to drive through 😕
It may seem counter intuitive but as you can see, while they did sustain some damage, nearly all the stilt homes are still standing and are mostly intact. Had they been built directly on foundations the tidal surge would have caused ten times as much damage. Tidal surge can do as much damage if not more so than wind.
Hey if that was Dorian that hit us here in Abaco Bahamas there would b nothing left.we had 225 mph winds.So thank God it was not as strong .you can and will rebuild you have yr lives.After a year we're still rebuilding but u guys should be quicker.
Those stilts didn't work much, did they? I also remember a couple years ago when this was sold as primo real estate. Some of these people just lost a lot of money.
I went to Holly Beach the day after Hurricane Rita passed through there in 2005. It was much worse than what I see in this report. The storm surge then was obviouslly much worse than this one because I’m telling you there was absolutely NOTHING left standing there !!! No houses on pylons, no campers. Nothing but concrete slabs where camps used to be ! The wierdest thing I saw was, on Holly Beach, where EVERYTHING was just blasted and pushed away by the storm surge, there was this single statue of the Virgin Mary standing out there all alone
Before 2005 , Holly Beach was a fun place to go. There were a few stores and gift shops and a bunch more camps. After Rita hit , Holly Beach was never the same again.
@@gamorleo3569, dude I went through Katrina, there was nothing left in the Gulfport/Biloxi area. Not downplaying Laura, but just doesn't look as bad as the media says it was going to be.
I don't get why Americans don't built homes from brick, stone and concrete like we do in Europe - with this kind of extreme weather occuring a lot more frequently than here. Sure, it wouldn't offer perfect protection either, but buildings constructed in a more solid manner than just wood, plywood, drywall, plastic and sheetmetal would definetly fare better!
There is no widespread damage after all the hype so they show random shots of debris .. notice they don't pan t he camera in any of the shots? There is nothing else to see
I had no idea Holly Beach was even still there. I thought it got blown off the map in a hurricane years ago. Seriously. A bunch of people with below average decision-making skills must have thought living there would be a great idea and rebuilt it.
My prayer go out to those truely effected Drama queen news reporters . I survived St. Thomas irma & maria 2017. Everything was lost , no roofs every where. Took me three days to get out of my driveway. And mosts repairs were put on hold for 10 days Because another cat 5 storm was on its way ( maria) My home is still not repaired. The insurance money never predicted a triple increase in the cost to repair When fema showed up on our island Landlord raised the rents by a factor of 3 . Our government gave landlord bonus money to house people on section 8! And the middle class were left to fend for themselves. I lived in the back of a box van until April 2020. I finally found a rental i could barely afford because of Covid 19 (most storm contractors left island)
@@nolagospeltracts8264 Yeah I don't get that either. In cities, populated areas then yes, but in remote spots like this, with virtually no one around? Nah,silly.
Wow. Built them on stilts to save them from flooding, so the wind blows them apart anyway. What was the point again? Must be nice to have the money to keep rebuilding your vacation getaway on a spit of sand staring directly out over the open ocean. Personally I'd find it real tiresome to replace belongings every few years when another hurricane comes through and wipes it all out again. How does one find an insurance company that doesn't immediately spit-take their lunch when this kind of neighborhood comes up?
Louisiana and the Carolinas for Hurricanes, Texas for hurricanes and tornadoes, Oklahoma for tornadoes, Arkansas for floods, California for earthquakes and bush fires and Covid, Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota for riots, New York for viruses and in Florida.....well, Florida. I might just stay put up here in New England
It would be nice to get everyone off the beach and give the beach back to the public so they can use it for fishing and swimming and it's not right when someone can build a home on the beach and play a pig and playing the beach for them self
@Too_ Beautiful You're not wrong about that. Pelosi & Schumer did try but as usual there is a huge EGO Pride in each Party the Senate refuses to accept the Democrats offer. When the GOP does the same then the Dems refuse. Its All ABOUT TAKING CREDITABLY.
At least there are some frames....not like mexico beach.....there was no homes at all NOTHING!!!$ NOTHING TO EVEN WORK WITH....IT WAS LIKE NOTHING WAS EVER THERE!!!
@Mara L Yes, God does answer prayers - but He is not a Santa Claus trying to please us. He is interested in our inner being and wants to save us for the eternety. If it takes a hurricane, He will send one. We should focus on what really matters.
Prayers from Panama City, FL. These hurricanes are no joke. As a guy who stayed during Hurricane Michael, and literally witnessing somebody’s house getting thrown in the air, it’s so sad to see the destruction. In Panama City we still have a lot of damage and fallen trees not picked up. Hoping for the best for the people affected by Hurricane Laura ❤️❤️
Michael was a tough storm. Downtown Panama City did not even get the strongest part. Mexico Beach did and looked worse than Holly Beach. Then you had Dorian on Abaco Island which was way stronger than Michael even. There was one stretch where not a structure was standing.
I'm 60 years old and have lived in Florida for 30 years and Gulfport Mississippi for 5 .People know we have hurricanes and yet seem surprised everytime a hurricane hits.
Lol
I went through hurricane Camille. I was 7 years old. I think about y'all and pray for y'all during these hard times
Much like the summer "heat waves" they happen every year
Freedom Ring ....So true
@@lindabranager1565 Now that was a real bad hurricane. I was in the Seabees for 5 years stationed in Gulfport in the late 70s early 80s and still seen some damage.
When you build in a location like that, you KNOW it's just a matter of time.
They lost a lot of homes in the last big Hurricane. It is city code to raise your house on stilts. Those who couldn't afford to, left and didn't return.I camped at Holly Beach a few years ago and a shrimp fisherman filled me in. He said raising his house on stilts cost more than his house did to build. The people who live there mostly own shrimp boats or work on the oil rigs off the coast.
What saved the houses was how swift the storm was.
definetly, had it been slower....disaster. Luckily it came and went
The storm moved in very quickly luckily it did not slow down to less than 8 mph it could have been far far worse.
They got so lucky the storm surge wasn't as bad as forcasted.
Sondra Vickers trust me it is live in westlake at one point thought the city was gonna explode due to the plants don’t know what is going no service really no power still have water can’t believe this shit it’s like an ovie
Well you build on the water expect to get wet
Facts
Disasters everywhere from coast to coast. Natural disaster or economic disaster...the results are the same.. Homeless people everywhere, Tents everywhere, RVs everywhere.
This reminds me of driving through Port St Joe upto Panama City Easter 2019. Very similar scenes to this only much worse as most of the houses on stilts were ripped apart, and for mile upon mile. I'm a Brit so we just don't have weather events like this, although we are getting pretty historic floods in places every few years as the norm nowadays but not with such widespread damage as I saw in the Panhandle after Michael tore through it. I've never in my life seen so many snapped trees either, thousands upon thousands of them, as far as the eye can see.
Panama City was not a pretty sight either, so many severely damaged properties and all this was over half a year after it happened, I hope it's looking better up there now.
Hats off to the southern folk that have to endure these enormous storms year in year out around the Gulf and down the Eastern Seaboard, you're a hardy lot and you're prepared to suffer greatly for that year round warmth lol!
The wise man built his house upon the rock,the foolish built his house upon sand,so the water wash it away....
Jesus is our rock! ❤ all other ground is sinking sand.
That wise man who said that name is God ..
Very good point. I forget what folk lore or mythology it came from but great wisdom.
@@RomanH1984 bible
@@mickeylaster1627 It's an elaborate troll. Don't fall for it!
A demolished large RV. Please explain why someone would leave a big RV in the path of a CAT 4 hurricane ? Why not hook it up and drive off ???
Insurance claim on an old RV.
When your up north and only get about 24 hours advance notice, ....
I'm surprised there's anything left of any trailers with those winds.
laura good job
Christiaan Baron I don’t believe anything these assholes say. Everything is doom! A dusting of snow is a fucking emergency! Professional liars!
Media lied about it? Literally went through this hurricane about 100 miles from where this video took place. The intensity of the wind was remarkable. The amount of damage we had to deal with today was unbelievable. Perhaps you shouldn’t speak on things you know nothing about.
Christiaan Baron have you ever been in 150 miles of wind,yeah didn’t think so
I literally have instruments that measure wind speed. We were getting 80-90 mph gusts 100 miles East of the eye. My friends and family that live closer to where the eye made landfall all have extensive damage to their homes. This wasn’t some media driven event. I am telling you as someone that experienced it and knows countless others that went through this as well. Hell, people I know that are several hundred miles inland still experienced 100+mph gusts where the eye crossed. Those towns will be without power for weeks. I get aggravated with this conspiracy nonsense when it involves very real tragedies.
The only reason for a Motor Home or a trailer to still be out there during a hurricane like this got to be no money, nothing else makes any sense.
Or people with money to burn, who left their vacation trailers/rigs there.
Your comment doesn't make any sense 🤔
No, cheap to store it there.
Some of the trailers are from vacationers all the way up into the Northern part of the state and didn't have time to remove their property. DUH
It is a very small town where people either have vacation homes and trailers or own or work on shrimp boats and oil rig workers
Oh God bless the people of this town 🙏🏾✨
I love it when no one speaks in the background. Our eyes can assess what has happened.
A thought as a native Louisiana: Cameron Parish is the roughly the size of Delaware in terms of area and there are less than 7,000 residents in the entire parish. There are no incorporated towns or cities. The village of Cameron is the Parish Seat and has less than 500 residents. Maybe it’s time to relocate these people and dissolve the Parish as a political entity. Maybe absorb it into Calcasieu Parish and have the entire parish as a public beach and wildlife refuge with hunting permits issued by LDWF. Just a thought. They’ve been flattened by Rita, Ike, Humberto, Harvey, and now Laura In just the last 15 years.
My place got flooded from a ice jam! REALLY SUCKS!
Prayers are being sent for everybody all over this world my heart goes out to those🙏🙏🙏💜💜🕊🥰❤
Houses on stilts with water damage is insane. Usually that takes a good sized tsunami in most parts of the world.
or maybe the windows got broke??? just a thought !
@@carlfreeman795 oh for sure with those winds but the surge was really high there and there is very little to no terrain to stop the ocean. Super flat area
Sad part is this is jus the beginning of hurricane season.... I'm sure this isn't the last one.... But I'm definitely hope so enough destruction
Hurricane season starts in june.
Please don’t repeat the lies you see on msm
@@riverflyswatter Lol either way hurricane season is still going on.... My concern is safety of those within those paths they travel..... But aye thanks anyways
@@ladyv301 There's two more tropical waves off of Cabo Verde island. A couple of days ago, it had a 20% chance of formation, and just a few hours ago, they said it now has a 30% chance of formation. I pray Lord that it doesn't turn into something big and catastrophic.
Hurricane: 1
RV: 0
They are in better shape then Katrina, I lived on the coast for 9yrs you have to take the good with the bad
BLESSINGS BLESSINGS ALWAYS to EVERYONE👑💫✝️🛐❣
I thought that was the purpose of using a trailer? When storm is on the way, pack up, hook up truck and drive away? Not leave it there for the storm to scatter it all over your neighbors yard???
That seems really dangerous but keep up the good work in staying safe😀😀
WANT TO LIVE ON THE BEACH MAKE THEM LIKE BRIDGE SUPPORTS ALL THE WAY DOWN...25 FEET HIGH SHOULD WORK
Why would they build there. Wasnt there a parable in the bible about building your home on sand.
You know all those campers had roof leaks or they didn't want a payment.
if you choose to build on an ocean front that gets storms and hurricanes...it is what it is....shrug..
Well, yes, that's why you get insurance.
Lynda Vance thank you.
@Lynda Vance Compassion? No more than I would have compassion for someone who loses everything by gambling. Because that's exactly what they did.
As long as these locals survived that is truly the main goal. Mother Nation will continue to remind us who is really in charge.
Mother Nation?
God bless you poor people🙏🏼 lot’s of prayers form New Jersey keep your chins up n build back better than before good luck n god bless you all 🙏🏼👍🏻🇺🇸
Someone commented on a post yesterday, that said they were stuck in Holly Beach.. I'm hoping he got out🙏 He said at the time the water was too high to drive through 😕
Holly Beach may of been hit Hard but Rutherford Beach is hit Harder.
I would never want to live in a house on stilts oh, that's just crazy!
It might've been lifted specifically for hurricane season
It may seem counter intuitive but as you can see, while they did sustain some damage, nearly all the stilt homes are still standing and are mostly intact. Had they been built directly on foundations the tidal surge would have caused ten times as much damage. Tidal surge can do as much damage if not more so than wind.
The majority of them are vacation rental homes. No one actually lives there
I'll be praying for everyone
Dude those are Camper's. Media at it's Best Here. No where to run and No where to Hide. Great Journalism?? I'm gonna listen to the Supremes Now.😎
It really hurts to see this. I love holly beach....
Hey if that was Dorian that hit us here in Abaco Bahamas there would b nothing left.we had 225 mph winds.So thank God it was not as strong .you can and will rebuild you have yr lives.After a year we're still rebuilding but u guys should be quicker.
Those stilts didn't work much, did they? I also remember a couple years ago when this was sold as primo real estate. Some of these people just lost a lot of money.
I went to Holly Beach the day after Hurricane Rita passed through there in 2005. It was much worse than what I see in this report. The storm surge then was obviouslly much worse than this one because I’m telling you there was absolutely NOTHING left standing there !!! No houses on pylons, no campers. Nothing but concrete slabs where camps used to be ! The wierdest thing I saw was, on Holly Beach, where EVERYTHING was just blasted and pushed away by the storm surge, there was this single statue of the Virgin Mary standing out there all alone
Before 2005 , Holly Beach was a fun place to go. There were a few stores and gift shops and a bunch more camps. After Rita hit , Holly Beach was never the same again.
Doesn't looks as bad as they were predicting.
Are you kidding me ua-cam.com/video/Ku6AvbOY2IU/v-deo.html IT WAS THAT BAD
@@gamorleo3569, dude I went through Katrina, there was nothing left in the Gulfport/Biloxi area. Not downplaying Laura, but just doesn't look as bad as the media says it was going to be.
who is the builder of the light pink house? That one looked good.
Good save on saying there was inside damage to those homes that look fine after saying you did not see a single home without damage.
Don't forget Puerto Rico, they too have been hit pretty bad.
veryy frightening !!
PRAYING for the Folks who came through Hurricane Laura♡ PRAYERS going up for the Folks who have yet to deal with Hurricane Laura♡
Heartbreaking 🌸
That's rough. Sorry people.
I don't get why Americans don't built homes from brick, stone and concrete like we do in Europe - with this kind of extreme weather occuring a lot more frequently than here.
Sure, it wouldn't offer perfect protection either, but buildings constructed in a more solid manner than just wood, plywood, drywall, plastic and sheetmetal would definetly fare better!
we do , mine is brick but mostly when you go to some where on a beach that’s what the houses mostly look like
There is no widespread damage after all the hype so they show random shots of debris .. notice they don't pan t he camera in any of the shots? There is nothing else to see
Build it to withstand 300 mph winds...and you wouldnt have to panic
I had no idea Holly Beach was even still there. I thought it got blown off the map in a hurricane years ago. Seriously. A bunch of people with below average decision-making skills must have thought living there would be a great idea and rebuilt it.
...........I see steps leading up to a door, but no house left......
I would hit the road the hell with this place.
Wow. Trailers and yard barns were blown over.
why does it look like this was filmed in 1992
Typical Louisiana yard sale!
THIS IS REMIND ME OF TRUE DETECTIVE SEASON 1
So reminiscent of Katrina ..8/29
My prayer go out to those truely effected
Drama queen news reporters .
I survived St. Thomas irma & maria 2017. Everything was lost , no roofs every where. Took me three days to get out of my driveway. And mosts repairs were put on hold for 10 days
Because another cat 5 storm was on its way ( maria)
My home is still not repaired. The insurance money never predicted a triple increase in the cost to repair
When fema showed up on our island
Landlord raised the rents by a factor of 3 . Our government gave landlord bonus money to house people on section 8!
And the middle class were left to fend for themselves.
I lived in the back of a box van until April 2020. I finally found a rental i could barely afford because of Covid 19 (most storm contractors left island)
Those aren't trailers they are campers
0:04 is a 35+ ft trailer complete with slides
Holly beach community became wicked
Shout out to the reporter for not wearing a freaking mask!
It's not like he needed one for this segment seeing as he wasn't surrounded by anyone for hundreds of feet in any direction, plus it's damn windy.
@@Muzakman37 I see new reporters in similar conditions like in the middle on nowhere wearing masks.
@@nolagospeltracts8264 Yeah I don't get that either. In cities, populated areas then yes, but in remote spots like this, with virtually no one around? Nah,silly.
Wow the stairway to heaven awesome!
Dam dam dam so sad especially now in a Covid19 world.
Has anyone here seen how these storms are engineered by the Military Industrial Complex, Weather Controllers ?
Ground Zero Media 👍
@@lpg12338 👌
Que buena idea hacer las casas en alto!!
Looks like less than 20 feet of storm surge tho
Why would anyone put mobile homes in hurricane alley ? Anyway, the other houses on stilts, great job.
so turns out nobody rode out the storm?
Wow. Built them on stilts to save them from flooding, so the wind blows them apart anyway. What was the point again?
Must be nice to have the money to keep rebuilding your vacation getaway on a spit of sand staring directly out over the open ocean. Personally I'd find it real tiresome to replace belongings every few years when another hurricane comes through and wipes it all out again.
How does one find an insurance company that doesn't immediately spit-take their lunch when this kind of neighborhood comes up?
0:53 is when they start talking
Ohh fuck it’s like how do you recover loosing everything
Ef5 tornado still worse even though it's more localized. Joplin looked way worse in 2011.
Think you're right
This doesn't look too bad actually.
0:39 air-conditioning still working Great
Oh Wow🙏🙏🙏
OH GOD HAVE MERCY N THESE PEOPLE & PLACES > AMEEN
Actually wasn't all that bad as they said it would be. Smh
So is that's why Trump called it a hoax
@@MrMJmusicLover did he say that? 😂
@@greggonzales8 Yes
Looks like the hood. Not great construction.
Louisiana and the Carolinas for Hurricanes, Texas for hurricanes and
tornadoes, Oklahoma for tornadoes, Arkansas for floods, California for
earthquakes and bush fires and Covid, Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, Illinois and
Minnesota for riots, New York for viruses and in Florida.....well, Florida. I might just stay
put up here in New England
I use to live there.
The end of the world
I'm actually surprised it looks this good. I figured the place would be wiped clean like Rita. This was our beach when my husband was at Fort Polk.
Holly Beach has seen worse.
I’ve seen worse
It would be nice to get everyone off the beach and give the beach back to the public so they can use it for fishing and swimming and it's not right when someone can build a home on the beach and play a pig and playing the beach for them self
2020 so sucks
really bad but not as bad as after Rita where there was nothing left, not even the pilings
#end flood insurance program
Look at what Michael did to Panama City and mexico beach it was a cat 5
Trumpdy-dumpty really should cancel his silly QNon RNC. Put it on hold and hold a surveillance and support for this community and its losses.
Lets see if he mentions it, im going 50 50
@Too_ Beautiful You're not wrong about that. Pelosi & Schumer did try but as usual there is a huge EGO Pride in each Party the Senate refuses to accept the Democrats offer. When the GOP does the same then the Dems refuse.
Its All ABOUT TAKING CREDITABLY.
At least there are some frames....not like mexico beach.....there was no homes at all NOTHING!!!$ NOTHING TO EVEN WORK WITH....IT WAS LIKE NOTHING WAS EVER THERE!!!
Pray in My Name and you will Stay Saved from death and Hell #OneTake
maybe it shouldnt go back to normal.
Please tell me, why in hell would anyone live on a beach. I’m glad they evacuated.
It's a wonderful place to be, makes you feel like you are on vacation everytime you step outside.
GOD isn't listening to prayers is HE...!
Do you expect him to be a vending machine? You drop in the prayer and he delivers whatever you want?
@@verabolton I expect him to be what he is in the Old Testament, a murderer and evil incarnate.
@Mara L
Yes, God does answer prayers - but He is not a Santa Claus trying to please us. He is interested in our inner being and wants to save us for the eternety. If it takes a hurricane, He will send one. We should focus on what really matters.
Sorry
Terrible!I 😢
Hope they have good insurance. Me personal I would of fucked off in that trailer and at least saved something! Da