Prayers for the people in Louisiana and Texas. Hunker down Cajuns and Warhawks!

My son moved to Houston three weeks ago, he's battening down the hatches.

This is shaping up to be a nasty one....

Rekdiver wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:25 pm

This is shaping up to be a nasty one....

True that...Cat 4...wind gusts to 175 mph...Godspeed to all along the Tx and La coast with a callout to our friends at ULL, McNeese State and all our SBC friends inland at Little Rock and A-State...also to my App roomie (Mike) and his wife (Gina) in N'orleans.

I lived in TX when Rita blew thru same path as Laura is taking. Rita went from a cat1 to tropical storm over our county where we lived. I would not want to live thru a cat2, 3 or 4 from what we witnessed that day.

For all intensive purposes this is a Cat 5...I don’t think I eVer seen one like this.I lived scared thru Hazel and Hugo and this one is much worse.

I responded to hurricane Michael a couple years ago which was a cat five and it looked like a bomb went off in every direction. Very sobering.

The one and only time classes were cancelled (or even delayed) were my sophomore year (Sept. ‘89) for Hugo... Thursday night, 2nd floor Cannon... we had a hurricane party, with no clue what this thing was about to do! Woke up (Friday) to the old horizontal hinged windows flapping in and out, propane tanks and such floating around in the old baseball field, wondering if Charleston still existed, and all classes cancelled! Beat JMU at home that Saturday, if I remember right!

BTW, I’ve got the portraits of “Storm Warning” and “The Storm” hanging in my great room now... Charleston pix from Boone memories!!!

Oh yeah!... wife’s name is LAURA! Be afraid! Be very afraid!!! She’s hell boys!!!

Not making light though... this thing means business, and prayers to people down there!

Landfall was at 2:05 AM ET 30 miles due south of Lake City, La with storm surge of 15 to 22 feet. As of 4:10 AM ET, the eye is approaching Lake City with winds near the eyewall still gusting to 165 mph...that's down from 185+ an hour earlier. Simply Devastating!

Storm slowly losing wind strength but the high water wall is moving in. The entirety of the city will be flooded except for the highest point in town--site of a state-of-the-art casino where cable network news crews are sheltering from the rough stuff...flying debris that could kill a person on the spot...plywood/rafter roof sections...ragged sheet metal...clapboard siding with exposed nails and chards of shattered glass...falling but still "hot" electrical service lines and etc. Lower elevation sections of Lake City being regarded as unsurvivable by human life.

I grew up in the coast of NC with North Topsail Beach approximately 10 to 15 minutes distance. We had a process to get ready for each one. Although we may have had one with winds as high as this one, however, I do not seem to remember. The rising water is worse than the winds.