Pray for Louisiana

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Laura moving across land in Louisiana this morning as a Cat 2.
Made landfall early this morning at Louisiana/Texas border as a CAT 4./nearly a 5.

[user328]

Light rain. Laura is about 95 miles south of here. It'll still be a category 1 hurricane when it arrives. I've never seen a Gulf hurricane hold together this far inland.

[user328]

Looks like it'll pass a little to the east, so we'll be on the easy side of it. Glad we're finally getting some rain.

[user328]

The wind and rain have picked up a little. Still nothing too exciting.

This area is prone to torrential thunderstorms, even without a hurricane.

The town is criss-crossed with deep ditches. I think the main danger will be flying debris and trees falling on houses.

[Mister Obvious]

This hurricane was a strange one.

[Mister Obvious]

Check out this shitty WaPo stream.

They're just driving through not saying anything and the stream is buffering and pixelated LOL.

[Mister Obvious]

The MSM truly cannot compete with citizen journalists on any level.

[Mister Obvious]

[Mister Obvious]

After the massive nightmare that was hurricane Dorian...

I dunno, nothing seems all that bad in comparison.

There's a lot of damage from Laura but it seems like it could have been a lot worse.

[Mister Obvious]

Definitely a lot of damage... but it doesn't seem like things are leveled. Just seems like a lot of structural damage.

[Mister Obvious]

After the massive nightmare that was hurricane Dorian...

I dunno, nothing seems all that bad in comparison.

Seeing people streaming from multi-story houses built on pilings with waves hitting against the top level windows was pretty damn traumatizing.

[Guest]

the wapo live feed is great , thanks mo

I like the lack of talking mostly they did chat with an older couple cleaning up for a bit

mass media no talking should be celebrated

[Mister Obvious]

mass media no talking should be celebrated

True.

[user328]

We wuz robbed.

It fizzled out down by Natchitoches before it got here.

For some of y'all that ain't been down south too much, that's pronounced "NACK-uh-DISH." Now you're a coonass.

Then it went further east than expected.

It's been pretty calm with a very light rain since I checked in last.

We get more rain than this from a run-of-the-mill thunderstorm.

So yeah, we wuz robbed.

[Mister Obvious]

We wuz robbed.

It fizzled out down by Natchitoches before it got here.

Then it went further east than expected.

Yep... that's exactly what happened.

[Mister Obvious]

It seems like it went over an area where there wasn't a lot going on.

I think a lot of prayers were answered.