A) BEST footage of my hometown I've seen yet! B) whoever screwed that stop sign and put it in the ground should be the mandator of all building codes 😂
This was my first hurricane chase and will never be forgotten. I have had a love for storms since I was little and it was awesome to see the awesome power of Mother Nature but I feel for the people of Louisiana who have lost everything. I have seen lots of videos of hurricane footage but their is nothing like seeing in in person from a Lake Charles parking garage. Mother Nature is a beast.
This is my hometown. I’ve never seen footage of Laura. We were all fighting to get out and y’all came here to ride it out and document what we were running from. It’s what we have to worry about for 6 months out of each year. Thank you all for the bravery it took to do that! Thank you also for the suggestion to help us in the aftermath. It was a life altering year & many of us are still rebuilding 2 years later. Thank you for the accurate information you gave to introduce the footage. So much more can be said, but thank you is all I can come up with. Well, Laura was a total bitch…there’s that to be said. STAY SAFE WHILE CHASING THESE STORMS!! Best of luck to y’all. ❤
What bothers me the most is how this isn’t getting attention and there’s not much help and some much destruction but since we aren’t a big area we don’t matter
Had this been New Orleans, it would be in the news for months. As it is, the narrator never mentioned Audrey or Rita, and the destruction it caused this area.
Thought I'd seen all the footage of Laura and I watched all the live streams as it happened on multiple screens. THIS however is the best of all them. Brilliantly done!
Two years later and our community still in recovery mode. A lot of progress has been made but we still have buildings and homes that haven’t been repaired. A lot of business and retail spaces had to be totally demolished. A significant number of apartment complexes and rental properties were also destroyed. We have been through this before but this was the worst. Many thanks to those who volunteered in the recovery response.
I live in LeBleu settlement, exit 36 about 1 mile north, off I10. I rode it out. Never got a break, from 11pm until 430/5am the wind kept coming. To go outside & see the damage in only 8hrs was UNBELIEVABLE. Shingles peeled off & broke out windows, beat up my SUV. The water came in, down the walls, I tried to catch it in plastic totes. 1st time I turned my back to it, the ceiling came down in half of my apartment. The sinks gargled. It was an experience never to be forgotten. At day break, I started to go around & look at the damage, to check on friends homes to see if their homes were still there so I could report back to them. Sooo many people lost so much. Full ice chests in front of gas stations blown down the road. Hoods & truck beds UP in the trees. Power lines looked like dominos. 4 weeks & 2 days living on generator power. Thankful to be alive & unharmed.
I went to lake charles personally my brother stay there he lost his entire home . But we Louisiana strong 💪 he will be back everyone of lake charles resident's
I've been in Lake Charles since the day after the hurricane doing clean up and helping people try to find some sort of new normal. It's insane to see this footage and now see the same places completely destroyed. Love you work man. Keep it up!
Wow, this is the best footage I've seen of this storm yet. You really captured the wind dynamics in the eyewall and resulting destruction amazingly. Truly an epic storm, hopefully recovery is going well for all those affected by it.
I live in Lake Charles and evacuated to Deridder hours before Hurricane Laura hit. I woke up around 2AM and could hear the ferocious winds Laura was producing and I was absolutely terrified! This is my first hurricane and I remember feeling so sick knowing many people’s lives were changing so quickly 💔 my heart feels so heavy knowing my state and city is absolutely destroyed beyond recognition.
@@MaxOlsonChasing it’s going to take a long time. Three houses on my road were torn down last week. I’ve lived here for almost 20 years and some places are unrecognizable. A lot of houses haven’t even started the clean up process. There’s huge piles of debris down almost every road. Delta definitely put us a few steps back as well.
I cried for weeks when I lost my home. I’ve lived there almost my whole life. We thought it wasn’t going to be bad and at the last minute we were force to leave.
I've watched many, many Storm Chasers doing what you guys do best. But I must say you and your Team did an excellent job to show us just what a Major Hurricaine is like. I so glad you all made it through safely. But again, thank you for giving your viewers a Class A 1 Job!!
This video is excellent. I grew up in Colorado then moved to Arizona. I have only been around one natural disaster and that was when the dam broke in Estes Park Co. and the Big Thompson River flooded. It was horrible. This video is my first hurricane footage. Amazing!!!Great Job !!!
Thank you for sharing the video of my home town of lake charles my family and friends are there made me cry seeing my home town get destroyed liked that 😢 💔 😞 😕
I live over 100 miles inland from landfall, by Alexandra Louisiana. Been here for every storm the past 40 years and this one was by far the worst up this way. The wind at 430 5am was near 100mph
You forgot AUDREY, June 1957, and RITA, September 2005, one month after Katrina. Audrey was a cat 4 and weakened to a cat 3 by landfall. Rita was a cat 5 but weakened to a cat 3 by landfall. Both made landfall in southwestern Louisiana.
I am not a regular storm chaser. But this year I will start chasing for fun. Hopefully there will be some good storms like this. I am saving money for a trip.
I live in lake Charles and my husband and I came home as soon as the storm cleared. You are exactly right. It’s as if an airstrike happened. It’s hard to see the city you call home ravaged in such a way.
Just one question… is your auto insurance out the roof?! Goodness! As a resident of Lake Charles it’s been 2 years and people are still dealing/fighting with insurance claims. This area still shows devastation. House and rent prices are through the roof. There’s a lot of people still displaced. The glass building (Capital One Tower) still looks the same. Talk of demolition has been heard. People are still picking up their lives trying to move on. Your video was awesome! Stay safe in your journey of storm chasing!
My first hurricane. I live in Jennings... (a mere 29 miles east of Lake Charles) I'm from Oklahoma... trading one type storm for another... Terrified of them both. I live in a mobile home... Laura was quite enough... but a month later it happened again. I'm done... I'll be off visiting friends next hurricane season. You boys be safe... my prayers go with you.
Great job!!! Loved tour footage!! But don’t forget and Hurricane Rita the hit sept 24,2005. It was a 5 that backed down to a three by the time it came ashore. We will come back from this!!
I rode this out at my parents home. The next morning when you could see the damage, all I could do was cry and have a knot in my stomach. It felt like coming back from Rita all over again.
Why does everyone forget about Hurricane Rita in 2005? It made landfall in Holly Beach approximately two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. It came up the same path as Laura and was almost as destructive. There was mention of every hurricane from 1965 until the present hurricane Laura but there was no mention of Hurricane Rita! And it is known as the Forgotten storm. Why is that? Just curious!
Rita made landfall as a Category 3 and I was primarily referencing storms that made landfall as Category 4+ in the intro. Rita was still an extremely impactful storm no question. I think it was "forgotten" as Dennis and Katrina, the earlier and stronger storms, stole the spotlight in the media headlines. Just my guess though. Rita even damaged the same building you see in the video to a lesser extent, there is a comparison photo somewhere out there.
@@MaxOlsonChasing I didn't mean to sound like I was coming down on you, it's just that Rita was never cover from Lake Charles perspective. Every one thought it was going to make landfall in Galveston so all the coverage was from there and no one covered the aftermath of Rita. We did have major damage from that storm also. I always understood Rita made landfall at category 3 and the damage it cause looked like it was a strong 3. Around here we always refer to Rita as the forgotten storm. Once again I didn't mean to sound like I was coming down on you, and thank you for being one of the few covering hurricane Laura because main stream media isn't covering it as far as I have found.
Good Grief, there is another Hurricane looking like it will take the same path as Laura and is building strength. We are not ready for another one so soon. God Help us.
@@MaxOlsonChasing OMG, We have another storm heading out way. I pray it make a turn to the east. I hate that for the ones it will affect, but we are too tired from the rebuilding after Laura. We really don't need another big hit right now.
Pretty good actually. And there working there butts off to get the electricity back up and running. Some really great progress for sulphur and lakecharles. Now Cameron still looking pretty bad.
On a completely separate side note, the intro music reminds me of the Critical Role Vox Machina Animatic of their campaign from start till stream beginnings. Small musical world.
So funny how most of the main footage from all the storm chasers of this hurricane are of this office building getting shredded. Just from different angles. How many were you in the garage?
Probably 20-30 people, parking garages are ideal for hurricane chasing since they are made from reinforced concrete, have numerous levels to retreat to if storm surge comes in, and offer multiple viewing angles. This means chasers usually converge on them and that was definitely the case here. It also really helped that there was enough light here to see what was going on, many other chasers were in pitch black (or close to it) after the power went out.
Well we have video proof for our insurance, says the insured company. On another note! We lost all the papers on all the claims in the building and servers.
My first Hurricane that I’ve seen was Hurricane Laura and I was in the eye of Hurricane Laura, I live in Winn Parish and it was it was TERRIBLE, i didn’t even like it. :c
I only live about an hour and 30 minutes from Lake Charles. This was probably the worst hurricane to hit the state. Rita was #1, but now it’s number 2. #1 Hurricane Laura #2 Hurricane Rita #3 Katrina
What about "RITA" not long after KATRINA hit NOLA? FORGOT ABOUT THAT ONE!!! Everyone was still boo hoping about everyone over there! We were forgotten about! No celebrities offered to help. We had no power for a month!
It aggravates me to this that hurricane Rita and Laura where forgotten about I stayed for both of them and both storms want to make me kick my self for staying that's what people that are not from around here don't understand during Laura I had friends in Alexandria Louisiana crying about how bad it was there but then they came down here and changed their minds
Yes they did leave a ot of their pets. It’s sickening . They are all over the lost and found pages. Many injured after going through God knows what. would have drove to Oklahoma if I had to. To find a pet friendly hotel. Luckily I found one I. Houston an hour before landfall back home. Me, my husband, 4 cats and two Pitts we safe from Laura. Our home. Not so much . Our beautiful old oak fell on it! But it all can be fixed! Thank God we are all safe. We have a home to come back to when so many don’t ! ❤️
I'm sick of people making this comment, if you actually listen to what I'm saying you will understand why I left those out. The goal was not to name every storm, the goal was to say a high end Cat 4 borderline Cat 5 has not taken the track that Laura has in recorded history. How is this so hard for people to grasp?
