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Team West has arrived in Holly Beach on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana in Cameron Parish. First thing we notice is that everything is gone -- houses, power lines, businesses -- everything appears as if it has been bulldozed.
It's a cold day here today. The National Guard soldiers at the checkpoint leading into town have tried to build a fire to keep warm. It rained here last night -- hard. Everything is wet. Mud and sand cover everything. The soldiers have to throw diesel fuel on their woodpile to keep it ignited.
Every power line in the parish is being replaced. Old power poles line the canals and the ditches of every highway. All of them that I've seen are broken off and not just pulled out of their holes. This is significant because it takes 100 mph winds to snap a telephone pole. The storm surge that followed the wind submerged essentially the entire parish. You can see evidence 9, 10 feet high of flood debris. Even though Rita hit five weeks ago, it looks like it was yesterday.
Read more from After the Storm: The Long Road Back, Al Henkel
Getting the boats back in the water
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Has the tabasco factory on Avery Island been destroyed. It seems it has been there for 150 years?
Marie McMullan (Sent Nov 4, 2005 10:17:46 AM)
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