The storm is still raging, it's nowhere near done, and already Port Arthur, Cameron, and Lake Charles are battered and heavily damaged.
Hurricane Laura hits Louisiana and east Texas, causes overwhelming damage.
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And with the hurricane now a tropical storm going the central US, we can see what happened to Louisiana.
We honestly need check-ins for every natural event that's coming in.
I know we have a few from Texas who already chimed in. Do we have any people in Louisiana?
I know we have a few from Texas who already chimed in. Do we have any people in Louisiana?
IIRC there's one or two, but I don't remember who or if they're active... Maybe it was Eacaraxe?
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We have a lot of evacuees from the gulf sheltering here in North East Texas locally right now, just when we thought our stores were empty from the pandemic, they just got wiped again due to the influx of people fleeing the Hurricane. It was cool that DFW officials are paying for hotels here to be taking the people in though, that is how it should be when people are in need:
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Refugees from Hurricane Laura have begun arriving in Greenville and Hunt County, ahead of the storm’s anticipated arrival.
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We got nothing from it where I am but a friend of mine in lousisana got hit but not as bad as most since shes in northern louisiana. Apparently even the rest of her city got hammered but she made it ok.
Nah, we had the first bits of remnant earlier today, and are about an hour or two from getting the rest here. We're not under any warnings, though we should probably be under a flash flood warning and wind advisory. It won't be as bad as Ike here.
Surely there's some kind of house design we should be implementing for buildings in states that get hit by hurricanes every year? I know saying that will sound stupid to everyone that has to deal with this but Japan has buildings designed specifically to deal with earthquakes, surely there's some design we could use that would make it so people and businesses didn't have to rebuild almost every year. Maybe I'm just being naive...
I'm glad everyone here seems to be doing ok at least.
I'm glad everyone here seems to be doing ok at least.
There are architects and engineers working on that but it's a different set of challenges from designing for earthquakes. High-speed winds, all the detritus getting whipped along with them, flooding... total fustercluck. I recall a decade or so ago seeing prototype houses with ovoid shapes that let the winds flow around it with less resistance, but I don't think the idea ever caught on.
Yea there are. In fact we had Dutch engineers come over and try to help us with it and just wound up shaking their heads in disbelief at how dangerous the practices were that the US chose to go with instead because it was cheaper. The problem is cost and the people can't afford it, the government refuses to and insurers wont pay for it to be built properly so we still wind up building shit over and over and endangering peoples lives.
Among the Ruins of Mexico Beach Stands One House, Built ‘for the Big One’ (Published 2018)
Hurricane Michael wrecked every other beachfront house on the block, but one came through the storm nearly pristine, as if protected by grace. How did it survive?
US urged to abandon flood defences in favour of Dutch system
US must adopt an integrated model of water management like the Netherlands
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New Orleans area levee system 'high risk,' and 'minimally acceptable', Corps says
Two different reviews of the New Orleans area levee system by the Army Corps of Engineers raise troubling questions about the ability of much of the system to withstand surges
They have it figured out, the problem of course is cost. No one is willing to pay for it. The few that do pay for it, their homes survive.
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