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Wild Bill63

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On August 29th of 2021 Hurricane Ida made landfall in southeast Louisiana going over a place called port Fourchon which is a port right there on the gulf of Mexico, it then travelled northwest going over Galliano and Houma, I'm not certain of where it went after but at least 75 to 100 towns suffered severe damages and about 1 million people lost power as a result, the remnants of the hurricane then turned northeast causing flooding in New York where some 40+ individuals lost their lives.

My property took no damage, the wind just relocated a tin roof that wasn't nailed down to anything, I did however, watch a live feed of the hurricane as it went through Houma a building had it's roof torn off, a hospital in another town had a similar situation and an ICU unit lost electricity. The following day trees were cleared, streets and neighborhoods some 100 miles away were even flooded. Lot's of people lost everything they owned. If you have snapchat go to the snapchat map and look at the destruction in Houma, Laplace, Galliano, Grand Isle, Raceland, Cocordrie, and other places below New Orleans there's really /nothing/ left. If a structure didn't get crushed by trees or blown away with the wind it will likely be demolished and rebuilt. The people need help!

If anyone would like to donate to the recovery efforts please consider Reach Out America, and the Red Cross. Links below. I highly recommend doing research on these should you choose to make a donation. (personally I recommend ROA more than Red Cross). Also, people are willing to pay $1,500 a week to folks who come down here to clean up with food and housing being taken care of.

https://www.reachoutamerica.org/
https://www.redcross.org/

03-Sep-2021 17:39:49

Wild Bill63

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More info on the aftermath. Many are still without power, most stores are closed and have no food in stock, gasoline is hard to come by and some businesses are trying to price gouge. (Almost $4 per gallon where it's typically $2.50). Police have been ordered to stand guard at the fuel stations because folks will get violent. In Hammond (another city impacted with severe damages) state police shut down a gas station because folks were threatening to shoot others over fuel.

Things are intense here. We are currently in a heat advisory with more storms on the way. On the bright side we have folks from all over the nation who are here to help restore power. An electric company from New Jersey was in the small town I live in volunteering to get power turned back on, folks are being neighborly for once and neither skin color or politics don't matter.

03-Sep-2021 18:00:40

Wild Bill63

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Yeah all is well where I'm at, power has been fully returned to my neighborhood. Some folks though won't have theirs on until late September or later. We've had clear skies and high temps lol with more nasty weather on the way :P

04-Sep-2021 04:00:41

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Good to hear you're ok Bill, I was looking at some pictures of the damage and flooding yesterday on BBC News, scary stuff. Stay safe.
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04-Sep-2021 10:39:24

Dong U Dead

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I've been reading about it on articles and news sites, quite a few deaths :( scary stuff! I even watch a time lapse video from beginning to end where the stationary cars ended up floating and going upside down on someone's security camera :/

There's been a lot of floods/horrific weather around the world over the last month or so, including my country.
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04-Sep-2021 23:00:15

Dong U Dead

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Wild Bill63 said :
@Dong U Dead, I do not watch the news at all so I'm unaware of events outside of the US. I blocked literally every news site yet I still hear stuff lol with that said what's been going on in your nation?
Ours was a few weeks back. Except Auckland was around a week or so back?? Germany, England and I believe other parts of Europe. We've all had horrific weather with horrific floods. I've just read about the California fires :( it's all just so heartbreaking and sad and scary!
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05-Sep-2021 09:12:01

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