Hurricane Ida turned a thriving Terrebonne Parish into a wasteland of sorts. Read this Terrebone Parish press release:
TERREBONNE PARISH UPDATE 8/31/21 10:30am WWLTV Please share for folks who are from Terrebonne Parish.
Evacuees: DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT come back to Terrebonne Parish if you evacuated. There is no electricity. The water situation is improving but you can’t count on it. Nothing is open. Debris is everywhere. A curfew is still in effect.
Emergency leaders say a lot of people are already coming back to Houma and it’s creating dangerous situations. Traffic lights are out, leading to traffic problems, especially for emergency responders. More people in town means resources are being tied up. There's not enough manpower here to respond to all the needs.
An officer was involved in a bad car accident while responded to a call of looting. That officer was dug out of his patrol unit and taken to a hospital in New Orleans.
Emergency shelters in the parish were damaged which means the people housed there will have to be relocated, most likely taken to Monroe which is where evacuees were taken before the storm hit.
When residents are allowed back it will be done on a tiered basis, with businesses allowed back first. Checkpoints will be set up. Right now, those checkpoints are not in place because resources are limited and the official reentry plan has not been activated. That’s how folks are getting back in.
Hospitals: There is NO medical care because there are no operating hospitals in Terrebonne Parish right now. All patients have been or are in the process of being evacuated to other areas. Hospitals were heavily damaged and there’s no way they can operate. In Lafourche Parish, there are about 95 people in the emergency room. The hospital is trying to get a medical truck to the hospital to help with patient care.
Houma Power: If you’re a customer of the City of Houma Power Utility, the roof of the utility was blown off so there’s no way for the utility to get up and running. They’re working with Entergy to get a feeder line into the building to try and restore power.
Electric: When power does start to get restored there is concern that electric surges to homes and/or businesses could create fires. That’s because of generators that may be on, damage to electrical wiring in homes, etc. With no water pressure in the parish, there will be no way to put the fires out.
Communications: Communication and cell services are basically nonexistent in Terrebonne Parish. This is creating big problems for emergency leaders because they can’t talk to each other. Mobile data towers are being brought in to help, but as of now, they’re not in place. This is going to take time.
Food and Materials: Food, tarps, ice and other supplies are on the way. It will all be staged at the Houma Civic Center and then filtered out to predetermined locations across the parish so folks can go get supplies. Right now, there’s no timetable on when this will be active, but the parish is working on it now. Parish leaders tell me there are folks on the streets out looking for food, so the Food Shelter is going to start driving around handing out food where the see a need.
From driving around personally, reporting on the conditions, damage is everywhere. Some places are devastated. Many business and homes are destroyed. The good news… most places have just cosmetic damage.
16 comments:
Few people here know where this parish is located
Be better for your audience to use town names
That is horrific news. I hope people heed the warning, so that there can be some semblance of order returned to the area.
Town names: Chauvin, Dulac, Cocodrie, Montegut south of Houma. Des Allemands, Raceland, LaRose up towards Houma way.
Speaking of Des Allemands, has anyone heard how Sphars faired? I assume being on the ground and with the bayou behind it, it got some water.
Hey smartass @11:20AM, HOUMA is mentioned several times in the press release.
Looters should be shot on sight.
@11:40am - Have you been living on the same planet as the rest of us recently? People are going to do what people want to do, smart and/or logical decisions be damned, freedumbs. They’ll all rush back because there’s one mention of looters in that press release. Though I’m surprised any of them left tbh.
Prayers and hopes those folks can get back to life soon. No local news today ? I know we are distracted but lots of stuff going on and we need to be on top of it. Word coming out from the hospitals as far as shortages is leaking. And it ain't good ! LEanne et al .....have a problem.
I don't think he was a smart ass for asking since, as a result, seven town names were mentioned in addition to Houma. I do think, though, you were a smart ass for answering the way you did. I would ask what Sphars is but am sure you'd bitch about that as well.
1120 - cut n paste “Terrebonne Parish” BAM! you’re geographically educated, but then again, it’s kinda like if you don’t know where it is….you won’t be going there anyhowz.
The State & Federal government need to END recovery money & efforts to coastal residents. Let the Federals give a one time buyout & than tell the residents you are on your own if you decide to stay there. Most of these folks have FEMA on speed dail.
@2:35
I guess the same logic applies to New York City, D.C., Baltimore, Philly and Boston. They are "Coastal Residents" too. Guess we should do the same with Cali with all their earthquakes and fires too. In fact, lets just round up all the "FEMA speed dail'ers" and just put them in jail. That'll teach them... and us normal folks can get back to business. (Eyes Roll)
I kind of like what 2:35 suggested.
I know it wont ever happen since tax dollars are in endless supply.
But I like it.
2:35 then where will the people in the oil and gas, seafood, and other industries live? Where will we get those commodities. Maybe we should move people from Central MS, Texas, and Oklahoma due to tornados. What about people in California due to wildfires? Where does it end? Should we move the entire USA to the few places that don't have natural disasters? I guarantee there have been federal funds spent on natural disasters in close proximity to your home.
Sphars is a really good place to stop and eat on 90 in Des Allemands on the way back from Cocodrie, Grand Isle, etc after fishing. It's where I learned to put potato salad on my gumbo.
and don't forget to buy out Houston, along with all of its refineries. (Remember Hurricane Harvey?). While we're at it, we may as well throw in Maryland:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hurricane-ida-remnants-spin-off-rare-tornado-that-damages-buildings-topples-trees-in-annapolis-maryland/ar-AANZOme?li=BBnb7Kz
Maybe it would be less expensive to just cut down on the emissions that are driving climate change.
This is what happens when the blog owner is a coonass out of his native land- he posts regional stuff from La. like it actually interests us.
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