Louisiana Left Behind: Hurricane Laura: One Year Later | Louisiana: The State We're In | 08/27/2021
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- On August 27, 2020, Hurricane Laura made landfall in Cameron Parish as a deadly and destructive Category 4 storm. One year later, Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) takes you back to Southwest Louisiana and Lake Charles to see where the recovery stands.
Louisiana Left Behind - Hurricane Laura: One Year Later, a special presentation of LPB’s weekly news program Louisiana: The State We’re In, airs Friday, August 27 at 7:00 PM.
LPB’s André Moreau travels throughout Laura’s path and talks to those living with the storm’s catastrophic results. What he finds is a tangle of frustration from officials and residents alike, who worry about bureaucracy impeding recovery and who wonder about Louisiana’s political clout.
Watch the special interview with Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter here: • Interview with Lake Ch...
Nic Hunter, you have really stepped up & spoken out for us. Thank you ! We need you !
I’m Canadian, so this isn’t local by any means, I just want to say thank you for doing this a year later and the forceful words spoken. I hope Lake Charles gets help, the communities around it too as I’m sure there are more that need it.
We do. There's so much debris everywhere, even now.
thank you so much, I still know people who have no homes yet, its good to see some recognition. I feel bad for anyone who is hit by monsters like this
This means so much to me, our house had the direct hit in the eye/eye wall. There are still people recovering here to this day. Thank you.
I lived in Sulphur, La for the last 20 yrs and i can tell you the aftermath was a nightmare. No power for 2 months, no internet, no real place to eat, the heat, mosquitos, running power for window acs from generators, shortage of gas and diesel, was very hard. Finding ice to keep your food cool, having to go out of town for supplies. Luckily i had family in Beaumont and Houston and had a place to go towards on the weekend for a break. But the clean up was brutal. The insurance company’s refusing to pay out fair claims, very ridiculous. I worked in construction and saw a large number of outside contractors take money and run, over charge, do bad work. The one positive thing about Sulphur, Lake Charles, Cameron, Iowa, is most of the locals are hard working and kind, and never afraid of working hard. It’s a shame we didn’t receive more support from the government, but like previous disasters, we take care of our own.
We talking about ida huh
I live in hackberry, can you imagine the pain we had to go through, since we’re very small we basically got forgotten about, power was out for 3 months, we had no gas at all there was no gas besides the stock everyone else had but again since were small all we had were two trucks one with ice and one with MREs and that was for the whole town
Cameron isn’t just a community, we are one community family, when one hurts we all hurt. We take care of each other, this is generations of families since Audrey. We always come back, because there is no place like “HOME.” We strive and survive it’s a way of life like no other. We get knocked down, and no matter how many times, because we are a family we come together, we get back up. We lift each other up, we give each other hope, strength and for a way of life that we don’t want to see die. We don’t give up in the face of adversity. We are Strong, hardworking, and will rebuild every time with or without outside help. We may need it, but we will never beg. We will come together as a family and get what needs done for each other. Thank you to the many individuals, organizations, and companies that has given us aid/help on the long road to recovery. As with Rita this will take yrs. Those Individuals, organizations and companies have been welcomed in like family. Words could never express our grateful gratitude .
Thank you for the very much deserved attention for SWLA but, would you believe if I told you that, there's more towns here than Lake Charles and Cameron. Here in Moss Bluff, North of Lake Charles, we still have neighbors that still haven't returned. Houses falling to pieces, yards still with trees laying across them, some still on houses.. its very very very sad to see.... prayers for Louisiana, we are strong people here but its getting heavy on our shoulders. Thank you to any and all whom came to help with recovery efforts.
You’re right ! That’s always the problem, I’m from lake Charles but, I stayed the night in Colfax during Laura & it tore that town up. It was still Cat 3 in central Louisiana. My daughter lives in Moss Bluff & I see exactly what you’re talking about. Laura didn’t get much coverage, but then they kept talking about it like it only happened in LC & Cameron, when they should refer to it as Southwest La. It’s like with Ida, you’d think New Orleans was the only place to take damage.
To make matters worse, Engle Safari is scooping up all of the houses & renting them out while they’re still damaged, for way too much money ! They’re doing the same thing around my neighborhood in lake Charles. It’s just wrong, taking advantage of people while they’re down & renting out homes that are dangerous to live in.
And right now his Water Company has just started reading meters again and are charging us since the Hurricane. They claim they were guessing until now. How is that the citizens fault?? My water bill went from $35 one month to $2K the next
So sad watching this. I’m from the U.K. & have close family in Lake Charles. I’ve visited Cameron on several occasions I always got a feel of a close community when stopping of at the shop for a snack, before walking along Holly beach. Hope to visit you again someday
There sure seems to be more attention being paid to Ida victims and areas than LC got. It's disgusting how all politicians both state of Louisiana and federally have forgotten this city
Ida is next
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It’s terrible what our brothers and sisters on the opposite end of the coast are going through. I fear what the state of La Gulf Coast will be over the nex10 yrs
Lura was the worst in history in louisisana
@@eileenmarcantel5973 No.
When I lived in Louisiana I liked their willingness to help each other. Has that time past? I hope not. That is what was special about them.
Not at all. We still help anyone and everyone who needs help.
When the power came back on you could hear everyone screaming
We have all been helping each other, I wouldn’t have made it through 3 wks of no electricity & a 2nd hurricane blowing off tarps & pouring in on my open roof, if neighbors & my family didn’t band together. Neighbors helping one another isn’t going to make insurance companies pay out, change the work/lumber/glass shortages, stop landlords from jacking up rent on the scant amount of homes/apartments that are available, etc….
If we as God fearing country ,we have to learn from the founding fathers work and carry on from our own city and state.
I remember zero about Laura.
My daughter and I was in our apartment in Lake Charles Louisiana when hurricane Laura slammed us. Everybody left us to face a deadly hurricane Laura. One thing that gets to me is that no one reporting hurricane Laura seemed to realize hurricane Laura winds got up to 300mph. That's right! From 419am to 449am Laura winds got up to 300mph. I know because I was trying to keep her from coming into our 2bedroom apartment. Laura sound along could have made you go out of your mind. Her winds kept getting higher and higher until at exactly at 419am to 449am her winds got to 300mph. Making her I think the most dangerous hurricane to hit our planet. We set in our small hallway listing to Laura bang on our front door and then our apartment started to shake violently it sound like a dying ship. If you seen Titanic when It was going down that's what our apartment sound like. I really did not think we would make it until morning. Hurricane Marco came at 9pm Laura at 11pm. Everybody that had done the report on hurricane Laura was not in hurricane Laura. They don't know what she was like, they don't know what they are talking about. We got a warning from the National hurricane center on our phone. unsurvivable winds 300mph. And we felt every bit of it. Laura high pitch voice set your nerve on edge it was frightening. I just stayed calm. Before hurricane Marco came i played my beautiful harp that kept both my daughter and I calm. She told me I can still hear the harp the mode scale you played earlier. Laura was a monster trust me.
No hurricane can reach the speed of 300mph on Earth. It was ~150mph.
They was not left behind they got what they was due .what more do u want.i guess they wanted to be on tv like hurricane Katrina.
We haven’t received federal funds… what are you talking about ? Do you really picture disaster survivors “competing” for some sort of sick fame ? You’re either a troll or touched in the head.
What did we get ? What was our “due” ? Insurance isn’t hardly paying out (if at all) for many of us, Trumps promised federal help didn’t happen & neither did Biden’s. We deserved 2 hurricanes a freeze & a major flood in 9 months ? My sons school is in shambles because insurance and FEMA wouldn’t pay out on any work being done, so all of the contractors dropped their tools & walked away. Do you taunt your neighbor after a house fire ? Just because you don’t see much coverage doesn’t mean we don’t deserve the help our taxes pay for ! I pray you never go through having to live in a shed, tent or RV with your whole family for a year ! I paid for home insurance, yet I still had to pay out of pocket for my entire roof that was destroyed, my blown out windows & clean up of trees, glass & fencing. Every other house in my neighborhood is still destroyed, most people live in one-room sheds in their front yards around here. FEMA barely helped, they certainly ain’t giving out trailers here !
How disrespectful.. you act like we are suppose to get our entire city destroyed because New Orleans got hit by a hurricane years ago.. and, "they wanted to be on tv like hurricane Katrina." you think we WANTED this? What a horrible person you really are.