9, 2020, a mere six weeks later, Category 2 Hurricane Delta struck near Creole, an unincorporated community in Cameron Parish. While the area was still reeling from Laura’s destruction, which was the strongest storm on record to strike southwestern Louisiana since 1851, on Oct. The Capital One Tower in Lake Charles, Louisiana, was heavily damaged in Hurricane Laura and remains unoccupied since. The area saw four major, destructive weather events within eight months, and while 2022 has so far been kind, climate change threatens a forever storm – not one storm that never ends, but the possibility that the region will continue to experience storm after storm, pricing people out of repairs or rebuilds and chasing away businesses and locals, and quite possibly, one day, making parts of the Louisiana coast uninhabitable. 27, 2020, beginning a cycle of seemingly neverending disaster response and cleanup. Eight Months Of Disaster And BeyondĬategory 4 Hurricane Laura made landfall in Cameron, Louisiana, on Aug. Well, we’re not lighting the matches but we are living in a tinderbox,” he said, alluding to human-caused climate change. “They can’t keep bailing us out if we’re gonna keep lighting matches. His end projections haven't yet been realized, but they seem to be itching to. Results showed cumulative sea level rise, as he intuited, ending with the distant Intracoastal becoming the new beachhead and leaving Cameron essentially inaccessible by land. Combing through available scientific data, he produced a mapping study that projected what the coastline’s health would be in 50 years. “Some of the stuff, if you haven’t experienced it, you can’t believe it,” said Henry.Īs a 20-year-old McNeese State student pursuing an education degree in 1973, Henry wanted to test a hunch based on observations he made while growing up along the coast. He is a licensed alligator hunter and is on the Cameron Parish Drainage Board and is active in efforts to bring attention to the area. Henry survived Hurricane Audrey as a 4-year-old and has spent his life in Cameron, Louisiana, as a businessman and land owner. Scott Henry shows what remains of his Cameron home, destroyed by Hurricane Laura.
The monogram "H" sticking out of the water upon the chimney’s remains gave away the owner. A neighbor happened to find remnants of his wooden chimney floating a few miles away. The storm left only a ground slab and a few remaining embedded bolts that didn’t get sucked out along with the anchored structure. “It may be something I never get to, like a lot of things,” Henry said. Now living full-time in Lake Charles – some 30 miles inland where Laura headed next, causing additional widespread damage, and where he and his wife maintained a second home – he’s not sure if he’ll ever rebuild in Cameron. The first big storm he experienced was Hurricane Audrey as a 4-year-old in 1957, which he and his immediate family were lucky to have survived.Īnd like most of those on his road just inland from the coastal marshes, he lost his house to Hurricane Laura in 2020. Henry, a self-described local observer, said he's witnessed demonstrative changes in a lifetime along the coast.
He recognizes that the world he was born into is leaving him before he’s had a chance to leave it like he found it. That’s no longer the case,” former Cameron, Louisiana, resident Scott Henry said.
And it is considered needlessly showy-like flashing a designer label on clothing-to smoke a cigar without first removing the band.“Whenever hurricanes came to the coast, Lake Charles was always our refuge. Social notes: It is considered good manners to ask permission before lighting a cigar if one is not sure of local policy or the preference of others.
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