Louisiana suffered 'tremendous devastation' at height of Hurricane Laura's power

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

DEQUINCY, La. —Hospitals and nursing homes across Louisiana evacuated on Friday after 82 of the state's water systems failed in the wake of Hurricane Laura's assault on a swath of wetlands and countryside, killing at least 10 people and causing about $25 billion in damage.

Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) told reporters Friday that he had requested a major disaster declaration from the White House to provide additional emergency funding for recovery as President Trump prepared to visit Louisiana and Texas this weekend to survey the destruction.

“The good news is, we didn’t have inundation 30 miles inland, as they had predicted, from the storm surge,” Edwards said at a news conference. “But that didn’t mean we didn’t have tremendous devastation down there.”

Although hospitals and nursing homes could use generators to restore power, they couldn’t operate without water, which makes it possible to have air conditioning and to sterilize equipment. Lake Charles, La., Mayor Nic Hunter said that of the city’s six water plants, one was “pulverized” in the storm, two were not working and three were working minimally. In most of the city’s buildings, he said water was coming out of the faucet only in a trickle.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/louisiana-suffered-tremendous-devastation-at-height-of-hurricane-lauras-power/ar-BB18tUQK?li=BBnb7Kz

[llashram]

1. let's see if clown pINO will help

[Liberal In Texas]

4. Probably loading AF1 up with paper towels to toss

out when he is driven around the damage.

[llashram]

5. he won't come on the ground

he'll fly over like BushII after Katrina and drop parachutes with paper towels

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Red state will not be ignored like Puerto Rico

[Submariner]

3. I would like to see flyover photos of the Atchafalaya basin

I bet hundreds of trees were downed. Fortunately, all the bird species should have fledged already and taken cover, but probably some losses. Crawfish trapping and gator hunting is going to be a hassle until trees are cleared out of traditional boat passages through the swamp.

[Solly Mack]

6. It's ugly bad here. And now tempers are flaring.