Thank you both. I really "enjoyed" doing it. Hopefully it will be a while before the next one.

Media coverage shows more the idiot announcer/reporter playing STUPID-MAN in harms way...thinking they are heroes! RESL HEEOES ARE OUR MILITARY PAST & PRESENT... more-so; those who did not return AND those coming back broken up!🙏🙏🙏

Yea. But there were still people in Fourchon. They were on boats, and thankfully they were ok. I evacuated and I'm almost 2 hr drive inland from here. Lot of people stayed. This wasn't a good one to stay for.

Actually very few fatalities. I think there were 2 in all of Louisiana as a direct result of the storm. There were more who died after the storm due to heat, co2, criminally mishandled elderly evacuation, etc.

exactly more than i thought

I was surprised how many big sheet metal buildings survived with minimal damage

*Since 1994 in Florida* all private homes must be built to survive the winds of a cat 3 hurricane without damage. Those regulations followed the aftermath of hurricane Andrew 2 years prior. Right after Andrew from atop an overpass of The RR Turnpike for as far as we could see there remained only the concrete slabs from the homes which used to be there. When we get bad hurricanes (in Florida) it's easy to tell the pre-code from the after-code homes.

The MSM are really downplaying how bad the destruction from this hurricane was.

I was the first boat into Grand Isle after Katrina I thought that was a mess then. The only people allowed on island was us at BP an the coast guard station. The police stopped by to tell any headlights call us. Needless to say as Capt of the boat I made a few calls. Not much left to loot this time

Insanity

That would be a man named Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, a French military officer from Canada in 1699.

Same kinda people who build condos and houses up and down every coastline in the world...

@@grizzomble Snow? That is hardly a parallel. You certainly have no experience of snow.

The same people that were laughing at global warming or living in denial, luxury and lavish livingstyle came to an conclusion for all mankinds, those days are long gone, this beautiful planet is suffering and all mankind will suffer right along with her, it going to be a long suffering, this planet is in the reset mode and evolution is at work.

@@grizzomble Snow doesn't do this amount of damage.

40% of the homes are gone. 100% have damage. The drone footage does not really show it all. From the air some of the roofs look great, but from the ground some of those homes have major damage. Some of the road in was badly damaged. That in itself will probably take quite some time to repair, especially on a Louisiana timeline.

Everything built in that area needs to be concrete

It is built to hurricane code.

Had no idea there was that much infrastructure let alone housing there so absolutely agree everything going forward should be built to handle a Category 5 hurricane and indeed a lot did survive. Anyhow that's some really nice building material strewn about. The Port of New Orleans has already re-opened so the economy there has obviously no need for any US Federal aid dollars other than what already be had.

@@doolittlegeorge NOLA politicians will historically 'use' the Fed $$$$ for other than intended and somehow will be unable to show accountability! The present NOLA mayor went into the election owing ($90.K) back taxes/credit card and still won the election...GO FIGURE!!!

@@doolittlegeorge New Orleans is not the whole state. Terrebonne/Lafourche/St Charles took a direct hit and sustained catastrophic damage. Many do need help.

Most of those houses are actually fishing camps and they're built elevated on posts driven deep into the soil. Those concrete slabs are driveways and parking lots.

Concrete slabs were building foundations (camps, drives leading to buildings, storage places, etc...)!!!

Okay. I was like dang.

What do you expect.

@@patricklamshear6662 for them to go up, like I said

Lets shut down more petroleum production complexes as this bozo administration has done and continues!

@@JCASTELLUCCIOJR You realize this was a hurricane, AKA Act of God. I'm sure the port will rebuild

Encounter Ministries KZfaq page.(Mark Hemans)

We don't even hold our breath waiting for our own government to rush in with aid.

Encounter Ministries (Mark Hemans) KZfaq page.

I had flood insurance when I lived in SC and it all goes through FEMA.

Insurance outside of the levee system is very expensive. But a ton of the people that live outside the levee system can’t afford to move inland

btw I’m from here

@J B Wow , I pay few dollars over a thousand for homeowners insurance I'm about a Mile from Delaware River in NJ at 55 feet above sea level on the Northern East part of NJ Coastal Plain so I don't need flood Insurance on a home ,pole barn on one acre tax assessed at 289 k . My sister is on Long Beach Island NJ Barrier Island on coast she has to have flood insurance and regular homeowners also . Not sure what she pays but a lot more than me inland . I believe she is around 5 k a year . Jersey coast gets hit about ever 10 years hard with flooding , but not anywhere as hard as you guys get it . Although we did have Sandy and Irene do a number on us and crazy increase in hard thunderstorms and tornados last 5 years . * Tornados within 30 miles of my home 8 of them this year . Although smaller than the big mid west ones they still take out trees blow off roofs ,take down power lines , one in PA about 15 miles from my house this summer piled a bunch cars together at a dealership . Something is changing in the weather in my 70 years.

As a guide the parish areas post katrina were paying around 2 dollars rate. With a 5 percent hurricane deductible. That dropped drastically as the insurance market softened and more insurers came in, to the all time lows of around 25 cents and a 2 percent deductible. It should never have dropped. Rates will soar back up and make living in frame shacks on the coast an expensive luxury. Given these should be built to the same codes as florids now. Katrina….laura…ida….also… gustav, nate, delta, the fact you can get insurance here is a mystery. They have only ever lost money in this area. By 2 dollar rate i mean multiple the building cost by 2 percent. So a 10m property would pay 200k. That is effectively saying its a 1 in 50 year event. Total loss every 50 years. Its been a total loss closer to 10…… hence the 0.25 percent or cents rate just made no sense

seriously???

@@drvonnostrum2671 yeah. Seriously. I guess you’ve never been through a hurricane.

@@Andy-je3el i lived in nola for katrina. So, yeah

@@drvonnostrum2671 and especially compared to Katrina this isn’t that bad and you know it.

@@Andy-je3el you are clueless

It call the work of God.

Hurricanes are only going to get more stronger and more frequent perhaps people should be figuring why you would rebuild in these areas at all.

Notice there are hardly any trees. There is a very small group (6-10) ALL CYPRESS HOUSES SURROUNDED BY TREES...most were built 100+ years ago AND THEY ARE STILL-STANDING AFTER IDA!!!

I wasn't at all trying to be rude. I just didn't want an unbeliever to misunderstand.

@@michellethibodeaux1006 Yeah texas and louisi got hit hard for attacking womens rights. god doesnt like that

The well built ones are uninhabitable due to flood damage

The elevation is actually above sea level. This is an extremely important port that services about 90% of the offshore gulf market which provides about 20% of the oil and natural gas needed to run this country.

@@robbyturner1207 bro I lived and worked in Louisiana for 20 years. I have seen it go thru several hurricanes and every single one has flooded that area destroyed just about everything.

@@fozman845 yes it’s vulnerable that’s true, but it’s not 18’ below sea level.

@@robbyturner1207 that's funny I have seen highway 1 before they put the toll road pass with a 90 deg turn all underwater. Everything routed thru Houma ports. So yea storm surge can go that high.. that's why a bunch of homes are jacked up

@@fozman845 yes of course storm Surge is another matter. If you were to look at it that way Manhattan Island is about 23’ below. It’s just a matter of time before it happens there. All coastal areas have that potential I suppose. Just saying by definition under normal circumstances it’s not officially below sea level (yet I might add). It will be with 50 years because the coast line in that area is sinking. Thank you for us having a civil conversation. Appreciate the banter. 😊

Ha, there were some solar panels....

Ah yes, all those buildings without roofs really should have had solar panels. That would make them heavier so they don’t blow so far away.

@@macmedic892 Well for the houses that would have a good installation, it sure would be better as a back-up than being without electricity for weeks and possibly months, if it survived the storm, of course. There are still lots of roofs standing out there.

Try getting insurance for that……..

Not really, if the wiring or batteries have been sitting in sea water those solar panels would be useless, not to mention the solar panels being blown off with the roofs.

You sound ridiculously pitiful!! Sickening!!

Speaking with compassion should be your only response while viewing this. Anything else indicates a real deficit in your character.

What you see here mostly is a port facility. Last time I checked, to be a port you have to be near the water.

@@viastephtop You see? You are a young lady. You don't have any common sense. You need compassion and common sense. You're halfway there.

@@rawtruth1602 Sorry. Learn some common sense, otherwise you will get burned!

They are feeding you; stupid. Many of these are shrimp, crab and fish processing plants, seasonal recreational fishing homes but some are commercial fishermen's homes so they can be close to their jobs. The stupidty of some comments amaze me. Check back in 2 months. Louisiana rebuilds rapidly and goes right back to work. White collar work.

@@eddieroberts3402 wanting to be closer to their jobs is an idiotic excuse. No safety concerns whatsoever for future disasters. so this is what saving hundreds of dollars in fuel over several decades eventually got them. hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage that could have been avoided. Idiots. No forethought whatsoever. Or, the retarded, childish, 'it'll never happen to us' attitude. So glad I don't live in the completely insane South anymore.

@@davidoverstreet2875 What state did you move your stupidity to?

Not even close to true

@@diannaguidry378, I know where Gabby is....

Seems like the fauci ouchi is giving you some brain damage. Maybe a 3rd or 4th booster shot will help