This is my home! Or was, there's really nothing left and no media coverage so thank you for the media!! Southwest Louisiana still needs help, over 100,000 still without power, some still without water, people sleeping in tents or on the cement! So thank you for capturing it at its fullest! I've heard so many say Laura wasn't bad, or they haven't even heard of a hurricane hitting louisiana, so thank you for sharing the truth. Myself and thousands of others have lost everything to her winds.
Thanks for watching; I'm so sorry to hear that. Very humbling to hear the stories of you and others from Lake Charles who have commented on this video. I send my best to you and everyone else in Lake Charles and pray that the city comes back strong as soon as possible.
Its like what that comedian Ron White said "It's not THAT the wind is blowing. It's WHAT the wind is blowing" Shards of glass in a 150 mph wind are going to turn you into human hamburger. Please stop being stupid. Even a car window isn't a guaranteed protection. You can see pictures online of metal rods and lumber driven through telephone poles. Debris can punch through a windshield like a finger through wet paper. Good God; people!
I don't get why people are saying laura wasn't gonna be bad, look at all the damage she did. I just hate it when people joke about stuff like this, i understand katrina was a 5, people are saying a 4 isn't that bad like a category 4 is literally close to a 5 smh
@@munchies08 im wasn't born here in Louisiana both im been working for years in this area and it broke my heart seeing all the damage laura did to this area and ti me its a catastrophe
@@bluecollarwarrior2184 Oh ok, I'm actually born in this state but i planned on moving to another state but since I'm moving to another house in this state I can't
I would only move in a state where there's a hurricane 🌀 I would just for 3 conditions 1. I hate snow ❄ I live in Wisconsin and after 23 yrs I hate it to the core, 2 is part of 1 i hate the cold weather so much that i would deal with hot weather anyway and 3 at least there's an excuse not to come in to work
This is downtown Lake Charles.. the devastation is astronomical the majority of the city still have no power and most of the homes are damaged or total losses the lack of coverage my mainstream media is discouraging.
I have family and friends in the Lafayette/Lake Charles Louisiana area. I went to school there and lived there in the second grade. I pray for strength to the people of Louisiana who were devastated by these hurricanes. Hurricane Katrina was the worst one of all to hit them. May all of the people who perished REST IN ETERNAL PEACE! Stay strong, the people of Louisiana. God bless you!
That is some incredible footage. I have lived through numerous tropical cyclones, but the way the wind seemingly becomes alive is still absolutely terrifying.
Her winds and strength remind me of hurricane charley who tore up Port Charlotte and punta Gorda in 04. I luckily survived that storm only because he was fast moving and wasn't carrying any surge. Amazing footage!!
Lc don't get that bad of a surge it's far enough north to not be bad but still far enough South so the winds completely fuck us over Cameron on the other hand had a massive wall of water destroy everything
This just remind me hurricane andrew i went through back in 1992 in homestead during eye back when i was we had 60ft royal hit my family home that night through den window i went through cat5 i only lived 2 miles west of homestead air force base back in a place leisure city.
This is awesome footage! It's so crazy seeing the air itself just tear things apart. Props to you crazy bastards for going out there to film this stuff.
great footage!well done!!. Imagine being out in that with all those shards of glass flying around!!!. whoa!!!. gidday from Australia. (we don't have hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, etc. where I live. Glad I live here and not there!!!!!. subbed!!!.
We evacuated for about 2 and a half weeks, we live in Lake Charles, got really lucky our house didn't take much damage other than some leaks and cracked windows.
Until you realise it's not a damn show ... That is my home town I live right buy the giant blue glass building ... Its been 11 days and clean up has just started .
Electricity is amazing... always incredible to watch. Wow... to see lightening as well as destructive winds is unusual. The power of mother nature. But people wondering around in it is totally absurd. At least have some respect for your own safety people. Great footage guys. I enjoy it much more when I know you are somewhere safe.
I live about a block from the Capitol One Tower, in an eight-story apartment building. I didn't plan to stay. I got left behind in the pre-hurricane chaos, and rode it out in my apartment. Thank you for posting this video.
@@MadWXChasing I thought I was going to die. At the worst part of the storm, my building was rocking back and forth. I felt as if I were on a swing. I saw your lights and wondered who was at the Capitol One Tower. I'm glad everyone got out safely. Until now, I had no idea how bad the damage was. Thank you for making this video.
Amazing video my man. I've lived in Lake Charles all my life, so has my family. Our 4 Acres right down the road from Prien Lake Park got absolutely destroyed. All of our trees have either uprooted, or snapped. We stayed for it, and I definitely don't wish to stay in anotherone. A tree hit our house but luckily it got caught up on some shit and didn't go all the way through. The city is in shambles, and even a week later it still looks like a warzone here. Had to move up in Ruston LA until the house gets rebuilt (because all the rain from it's aftermath caused a shit ton of water damage)
Thanks for watching; I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm glad that you and your family are at least safe and were able to get out okay. Lake Charles is one of my favorite towns down there by the Gulf; praying that you and the rest of the city can get back on your feet as soon as possible.
Thanks so much! Yeah, I think the rate of intensification caught a lot of people by surprise. That’s what happens when the Gulf waters are hot and there’s zero shear to disrupt the cyclone!
Rode it out in DeRidder. What a dumb ass I was! We were 50 miles north ofLake Charles and the wind still was over 120 mph! I will ever do that again. Sitting in the dark with that noise outside is terrifying!
@@kearstinknotts8569 Im going to start chasing these storms next year just for fun. I dont have a license nor a degree but I know a lot about meteorology. What is your opinion on that?
@@kearstinknotts8569 That's just not true. The only storm chasers that get paid well are the bigger TV personalities. And that guy walking out there at 4:20 is not a storm chaser, he's a suicidal mental midget. Real storm chasers know better than to be that foolish.
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 Hey Mark, I would start out going along with some professionals to learn valuable lessons beyond book meteorology. Good luck and be careful!
@@crocodile1313 Id like to but tours are too expensive. So I will have to go on my own. Dont worry I wont drive in any storm surge areas. Hopefully they will hit closer to Florida this year. Louisiana is just too far to drive.
I stayed in Vinton thru the storm. My alternator went out and I couldn’t leave. This storm was 10 times worse then Rita in 2005. I stayed in my bathtub for about 4 hours until my roof was destroyed. Lost everything but I am still here.
He was definitely on something; he was acting very strange in the hours leading up to the eyewall. I heard his face was pretty cut up after walking out there with the glass exploding.
We stayed during this here and were still without water, electricity, & basic necessities. I’m 7 months pregnant with a four year old daughter and had to ride it out after they shut down the interstate and we couldn’t get out. The devastation is beyond words. #helplakecharles
My goodness; I’m glad you and your family were able to make it out alive. Sending my best to you and hope you’re able to get back on your feet as soon as possible.
One of those cars on the road down below was Reed Timmers car. He was doing a live FB feed during this extraordinary event. There were 26k people in that car with him watching this unfold. Seeing this gives it a whole different perspective. Incredible footage.
Seeing this from where you were was quite scary. And that guy wandering around, what was he doing? How could anyone be out there in that? All you guys know what you are doing and don't put yourselves in danger.
@@phoeniix2 Unfortunately, that guy appeared to be on something and/or drunk during the hurricane. As you heard in the video, many of the chasers in the parking garage yelled at him to get out of there as the glass began breaking, and there were a couple that actually pulled him to safety. From what I heard, he was being somewhat belligerent after a few chasers called him out for his crazy behavior.
I am in Biloxi, Mississippi and we have SEVERE Thunderstorms! They take out our power every 10 seconds. We had one last night and it was scary. There was lightning every 5 seconds. But at 5:48 am I got woken up by a big thunder that took out the power for a minute. At school, Our power didn't go out. But there were big cracks of thunder. We were also in Hurricane Zeta. It was a cat. 2. At 8:30 - 8:40 PM, our power went out. It was out for 48 hours. During the hurricane, We heard one of those pipe for the water to come out things fall. No trees fell. Just Devastating damage. Someone's boat was gone. There were just pieces. It was so scary. About the traffic lights, Nothing was left of those. There were a couple of intersections still working. SO MUCH TRAFFIC! We had to charge devices in our car.
Just looking at the glass blowouts on the Capital One building. It appears as though the winds were much stronger lower down with hardly any windows broken near the top.
You may be right; just off camera to the right, the tight space between our parking garage and the Capital One building may have created a wind tunnel effect that locally increased wind speeds in this area.
Trey, that is a really impressive video on the ferocity of Hurricane Laura ! Have you ever experienced tornadoes generated by hurricanes rather than ordinary supercell tornadoes ?
N. Thank you so much! I haven’t actually seen tornadoes produced by supercells in the outer bands, but we did experience some mesovortices orbiting around the inner eyewall.
My boyfriend is there doing the clean up and it’s just heartbreaking!!! This hurricane was like a constant tornado for hours soon hours!!! Lake Charles is in ruins!! It’s so sad because there truly isn’t a lot of media coverage there!! My boyfriend said it’s like an atomic bomb went off
Me too man.... Me to. 4 Acres of woods right down the road from Prien Lake Park, looks like God came in with a chainsaw, chopped the tops of every tree, If not ripped apart it was smashed to the ground as a whole.
Wow...I can't believe people were out while glass was flying. I'm in Vernon Parish and have damage to my house and car. Still without SuddenLink but it doesn't bother me.
We aaalllliiivvvveeee. We are just getting electricity back. Mine just came back yesterday although i dont have a house anymore 😂 low key depressing but we louisiana strong we got this
Do you have any idea what the sustained wind speed was at that location? How about the highest gusts? Do you have prior experience to compare this to other hurricanes? Thanks.
I’d say the highest gusts were about 135 mph at our location, with sustained winds topping out at around 115 mph or so, maybe slightly higher. This is the strongest hurricane I have actually experienced. Thanks for watching!
@@imafake2807 150mph is what I saw when it was approaching. The highest measured wind speed that I've seen was 131 at the mid-channel buoy (over water). The highest wind speed I saw recorded on land was 127mph. My wife's aunt's house in Lake Charles flooded during Rita but stayed dry this time. However, a large tree fell on her house and came thru the roof. We got lucky this time but I know what it's like to suffer in the aftermath of a hurricane.
I was there through the whole hurricane it was HORRIBLE‼ i seen trees up root tornados every where we lost all our stuff😞😞 some of us don't have nothing left...This was an eye opener for me...i will never stay for another one...and to this day we still having a hard time...no where to stay 😢
I live in Grant Parish about 100 miles Northeast ofLake Charles, Laura huffed and she puffed til she blew every power line in this Parish down! 100 percent outage we went 13 days without ,some people still without power! We didn't see a lot of rain but the wind was unlike anything I've ever seen, the damage to property is great because of all the trees that came down and will continue to fall for months to come!
So how many hours laura was? For me when i was in hurricane andrew it was 8hours that last through midnight and until 7am in morning that day back in august 24 1992 i lived concret house build from 1950s which flat roof home during time hurricane andrew.
Wow! Conditions started deteriorating about 10pm, and the eyewall hit us just after 1am. Things finally started calming down around 5-6am. Thanks for watching!
In the North Atlantic Ocean and Northeast Pacific, they are called hurricanes. But if the same type of disturbance takes place in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, it is known as a typhoon. And in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, cyclone is the correct term
I lost my home and everything in it from the storm. all I have is a small bag of clothes and the necessities. I have my pets and my family by my side. we’ve been living in a hotel since the storm and don’t even know what time is anymore. my heart goes out to all the rest of the people in louisiana. we’re hurting but we’re going to be okay. one day at a time
I’m a resident of this city and this place is so fractured and depressed. The physical damage to this city is fixable but the mental health here sucks so much. Fema can’t fix that or at least they won’t try.
I live here too, I swear at this point people are just disaster fatigued. I know there has to be mass ptsd and everyone is so short tempered and angry. I feel so badly for everyone here and I just hope we start catching some breaks soon..
It makes me angry seeing people talk about how cool it is seeing these things get ripped apart. My house was one of those things. My friends houses. My neighbors. Our jobs. It’s been two weeks since I’ve been home bc my house isn’t livable so instead I’m staying 4 hours away and have no idea when I’m going to get to go back and same with so many others. It’s not a movie. This town was people’s home. It’s still fresh and I understand that the whether is crazy and cool to watch it just sucks seeing our homes be destroyed and people using it for their entertainment. Watching this just leaves a pit in my stomach
As storm chasers, we enjoy witnessing and experiencing Mother Nature's power from up close. But, there's always a flip side to that; we hate seeing the aftermath and how these storms affect people's lives. We try our best to spread the word about these storms' impacts and help out where we can.
The downed power lines electrified water in areas. Anyone unfortunate enough to come into contact with that before the power disconnected, was fried alive. My husband witnessed 2 of the people he went to rescue from being trapped in their homes come to that end. He reactivated himself to aid the local guard unit as a medic
I stayed for this storm in Vinton Louisiana let me just say never ever will I do that again it was the craziest and scariest experience of my life especially when you heard the tornadoes touching down yea f that
This is my home! Or was, there's really nothing left and no media coverage so thank you for the media!! Southwest Louisiana still needs help, over 100,000 still without power, some still without water, people sleeping in tents or on the cement! So thank you for capturing it at its fullest! I've heard so many say Laura wasn't bad, or they haven't even heard of a hurricane hitting louisiana, so thank you for sharing the truth. Myself and thousands of others have lost everything to her winds.
Thanks for watching; I'm so sorry to hear that. Very humbling to hear the stories of you and others from Lake Charles who have commented on this video. I send my best to you and everyone else in Lake Charles and pray that the city comes back strong as soon as possible.
Thank you! No media coverage its heartbreaking the devastation. An nobody knows what happened outside of Louisiana and Texas.
4:20 The moment when all of the insane people filming this are telling you to get out of there, you know you're doing something especially dumb.
Its like what that comedian Ron White said
"It's not THAT the wind is blowing. It's WHAT the wind is blowing"
Shards of glass in a 150 mph wind are going to turn you into human hamburger.
Please stop being stupid. Even a car window isn't a guaranteed protection.
You can see pictures online of metal rods and lumber driven through telephone poles. Debris can punch through a windshield like a finger through wet paper.
Good God; people!
Yuh
I’m pretty sure they were saying get out of there because the glass shards were acting like missiles.
@@timperry6948 I saw a house with a 20 foot section of pine tree sticking out the roof looked like opy from family guy
Bubba was going for his daily walk.
God bless Louisiana and all his people it's sad looking at the devastation hurricane Laura brought
L I will will eew
I don't get why people are saying laura wasn't gonna be bad, look at all the damage she did. I just hate it when people joke about stuff like this, i understand katrina was a 5, people are saying a 4 isn't that bad like a category 4 is literally close to a 5 smh
@@munchies08 im wasn't born here in Louisiana both im been working for years in this area and it broke my heart seeing all the damage laura did to this area and ti me its a catastrophe
@@bluecollarwarrior2184 Oh ok, I'm actually born in this state but i planned on moving to another state but since I'm moving to another house in this state I can't
@@munchies08 i understad how you feel specially if you have been true others hurricanes and been loose your house on different occasions
This still breaks my heart. I live in Lake Charles, well I should say lived, because of this Storm everyone I know lost everything.
Praying for you and the rest of Lake Charles.
lc strong im still here
Prayers sent
The eye of laura didn't even calm. She was raging.
Bruh this comment had me ended up dying I'm serious-💀✌🏼
where i live it was really calm at the eye and after
I would only move in a state where there's a hurricane 🌀 I would just for 3 conditions 1. I hate snow ❄ I live in Wisconsin and after 23 yrs I hate it to the core, 2 is part of 1 i hate the cold weather so much that i would deal with hot weather anyway and 3 at least there's an excuse not to come in to work
Agreed even after the eye passed it seemed like she wanted to stop! I was in Laura and things took forever to calm down
Seeing that powerline spark omg just 😮 that is all I can say
This is downtown Lake Charles.. the devastation is astronomical the majority of the city still have no power and most of the homes are damaged or total losses the lack of coverage my mainstream media is discouraging.
I still don't have no power lights
Leblue got power earlier this week
Praying for y’all! We just went through Sally here in Alabama. Definitely not as bad as Laura though
My trampoline and shed flew away but our house is okay it’s just leeks
Anybody else see that large piece of tin blow out of building then back in thru another window?
I live in lake Charles. I’m blessed to still have my home and be alive!
Very happy to hear that!
We never would have made it without Jesus!
Yikes
What about all the others who died though. Did he just forget about them?
Yes, because Jesus did it
I have family and friends in the Lafayette/Lake Charles Louisiana area. I went to school there and lived there in the second grade. I pray for strength to the people of Louisiana who were devastated by these hurricanes. Hurricane Katrina was the worst one of all to hit them. May all of the people who perished REST IN ETERNAL PEACE! Stay strong, the people of Louisiana. God bless you!
That is some incredible footage. I have lived through numerous tropical cyclones, but the way the wind seemingly becomes alive is still absolutely terrifying.
Thanks so much! I completely agree; feeling the wind go from nothing to 130+ mph in a short time span is really something.
Her winds and strength remind me of hurricane charley who tore up Port Charlotte and punta Gorda in 04. I luckily survived that storm only because he was fast moving and wasn't carrying any surge. Amazing footage!!
Wow, that’s crazy; glad you made it out okay from Charley! Thanks for watching!
Lc don't get that bad of a surge it's far enough north to not be bad but still far enough South so the winds completely fuck us over Cameron on the other hand had a massive wall of water destroy everything
These storm chasers they alot better the weather channel at least they show you real action where luara is at you guys did really good on your work.
I know right! I wanna see something besides a reporter standing in front of a damn palm tree talking lol 😆😁🙏let us C THE ACTION
Yes they arr
It came straight up to deridder as well lake Charles and deridder was horrible looking
This just remind me hurricane andrew i went through back in 1992 in homestead during eye back when i was we had 60ft royal hit my family home that night through den window i went through cat5 i only lived 2 miles west of homestead air force base back in a place leisure city.
This is awesome footage! It's so crazy seeing the air itself just tear things apart. Props to you crazy bastards for going out there to film this stuff.
Thank you so much!
I live in Sulphur, LA. So happy we evacuated. Good news for us...we got Electricity today!
great footage!well done!!. Imagine being out in that with all those shards of glass flying around!!!. whoa!!!. gidday from Australia. (we don't have hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, etc. where I live. Glad I live here and not there!!!!!. subbed!!!.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Absolutely; it sure got dangerous when those glass windows started to shatter.
I’m down here doing work on storm damage and what I have seen is nothing like I’ve ever seen
We evacuated for about 2 and a half weeks, we live in Lake Charles, got really lucky our house didn't take much damage other than some leaks and cracked windows.
That was awesome seeing the power line on fire then pop
Until you realise it's not a damn show ... That is my home town I live right buy the giant blue glass building ... Its been 11 days and clean up has just started .
Tbh i missed the fireworks show
Electricity is amazing... always incredible to watch.
Wow... to see lightening as well as destructive winds is unusual. The power of mother nature. But people wondering around in it is totally absurd. At least have some respect for your own safety people. Great footage guys. I enjoy it much more when I know you are somewhere safe.
I live about a block from the Capitol One Tower, in an eight-story apartment building. I didn't plan to stay. I got left behind in the pre-hurricane chaos, and rode it out in my apartment. Thank you for posting this video.
Oh, wow; I’m glad you were able to make it out ok! Thanks so much for watching!
@@MadWXChasing I thought I was going to die. At the worst part of the storm, my building was rocking back and forth. I felt as if I were on a swing. I saw your lights and wondered who was at the Capitol One Tower. I'm glad everyone got out safely. Until now, I had no idea how bad the damage was. Thank you for making this video.
I stayed home and it was a rough night to say the least!!!
Glad you made it out ok! Thanks for watching!
Amazing video my man. I've lived in Lake Charles all my life, so has my family. Our 4 Acres right down the road from Prien Lake Park got absolutely destroyed. All of our trees have either uprooted, or snapped. We stayed for it, and I definitely don't wish to stay in anotherone. A tree hit our house but luckily it got caught up on some shit and didn't go all the way through. The city is in shambles, and even a week later it still looks like a warzone here. Had to move up in Ruston LA until the house gets rebuilt (because all the rain from it's aftermath caused a shit ton of water damage)
Thanks for watching; I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm glad that you and your family are at least safe and were able to get out okay. Lake Charles is one of my favorite towns down there by the Gulf; praying that you and the rest of the city can get back on your feet as soon as possible.
@@MadWXChasing Appreciate it my man. Thanks for the prayers! Be safe doing what you do
Laura was screaming.
As Ron White once said while holding a glass of bourbon, "It's not THAT the wind is blowing.. it's.. WHAT the wind is blowing!"
Nice work! Remember when the weather Channel said it would be a cat 1 maybe 2 when it hit? Yeah never underestimate mother nature.
Thanks so much! Yeah, I think the rate of intensification caught a lot of people by surprise. That’s what happens when the Gulf waters are hot and there’s zero shear to disrupt the cyclone!
Rode it out in DeRidder. What a dumb ass I was! We were 50 miles north ofLake Charles and the wind still was over 120 mph! I will ever do that again. Sitting in the dark with that noise outside is terrifying!
Dang; glad you are ok!
I was watching the live of that dude in the truck down there. It was Crazy!
I can't believe that there are folks that foolish to be walking around out in the open with all the sharp debris blowing around.
They're storm chasers. They get paid very well
@@kearstinknotts8569 Im going to start chasing these storms next year just for fun. I dont have a license nor a degree but I know a lot about meteorology. What is your opinion on that?
@@kearstinknotts8569 That's just not true. The only storm chasers that get paid well are the bigger TV personalities. And that guy walking out there at 4:20 is not a storm chaser, he's a suicidal mental midget. Real storm chasers know better than to be that foolish.
@@markpalavosvrahotes5575 Hey Mark, I would start out going along with some professionals to learn valuable lessons beyond book meteorology. Good luck and be careful!
@@crocodile1313 Id like to but tours are too expensive. So I will have to go on my own. Dont worry I wont drive in any storm surge areas. Hopefully they will hit closer to Florida this year. Louisiana is just too far to drive.
This was the most devastating storm ever after Audrey since way more lives were lost in Hurricane Audrey.
More lives weren't lost because for the most part we like to listen and get the heck out of the way !
Forgetting Rita???
Laura was much more devastating than Rita. Which hit us 15 years ago today.
@@tyniacoleman2395
Indeedy. Rode them both out.. I can vouch..
Laughs in hurricane Michael
The guy walking in it 😂😂
@@rkardos4220 a storm chaser not just a random person lol
He asked his friend for a ride home lol he's like it's ok I can walk from here 😂 walks ... 🥵🥶🤯🙉 it's ok I'm ok I'll make it 🖐 thanks for the ride!🥶🥵🤯🙉
12:21 Imagine if that hit you...
Haha no thanks! Those glass shards turned into missiles in that wind.
That would of been like getting shot!!!!
@@MadWXChasing it's mad lucky that dude walking around out there made it out alright.
That sounded like Reed in there yelling among the others
Lake charles bro. I’m 11,
And I have to see my HT go down like this. Just wow!!!!
You all are brave. I don't think I could chase storms like that
Best footage yet!!!...
Thank you so much!
I stayed in Vinton thru the storm. My alternator went out and I couldn’t leave. This storm was 10 times worse then Rita in 2005. I stayed in my bathtub for about 4 hours until my roof was destroyed. Lost everything but I am still here.
Damn, very sorry to hear that. Thank goodness you are okay.
I’ve never seen anyone try to commit suicide by hurricane before. I bet he walked into a thousand shards of glass.
He was definitely on something; he was acting very strange in the hours leading up to the eyewall. I heard his face was pretty cut up after walking out there with the glass exploding.
And to think there was a single person riding that hurricane out in the Capital One building. Windows breaking everywhere
Right!? We saw him walking around inside the building before the first outer bands hit and thought, man I hope he gets out of there soon.
@@MadWXChasing glad he made it out. I can't even imagine why he felt the need to be there. And u guys rock. Storm chasers are the best
Intense storm, fascinating catch!
Thanks so much for watching!
DAM !!! That got a bit tense with all the glass flying
We stayed during this here and were still without water, electricity, & basic necessities. I’m 7 months pregnant with a four year old daughter and had to ride it out after they shut down the interstate and we couldn’t get out. The devastation is beyond words. #helplakecharles
My goodness; I’m glad you and your family were able to make it out alive. Sending my best to you and hope you’re able to get back on your feet as soon as possible.
The absolute worst! Continue keeping my city in prayers as they rebuild! We lost EVERYTHING 😭
I’m so sorry to hear that. Sending my best to you and the rest of the Lake Charles area.
That’s my city bro 🥺
I was over through there back in Feb going to a friends that lives up near Alexandria,He said it was bad there but nothing like this! Great Video!
Thank you!
YW Bro!,Keep up the Awesome Videos!!
The destruction I saw during the rebuild was heartbreaking.
Yes very heart breaking even now
Even as a cat 2 going into cat 1 she still was a mean one where I am in Louisiana. She sure made a mess here.
It definitely did stay in tact quite a ways inland. Thanks for watching!
One of those cars on the road down below was Reed Timmers car. He was doing a live FB feed during this extraordinary event. There were 26k people in that car with him watching this unfold. Seeing this gives it a whole different perspective. Incredible footage.
Thanks so much!
Seeing this from where you were was quite scary. And that guy wandering around, what was he doing? How could anyone be out there in that? All you guys know what you are doing and don't put yourselves in danger.
@@phoeniix2 Unfortunately, that guy appeared to be on something and/or drunk during the hurricane. As you heard in the video, many of the chasers in the parking garage yelled at him to get out of there as the glass began breaking, and there were a couple that actually pulled him to safety. From what I heard, he was being somewhat belligerent after a few chasers called him out for his crazy behavior.
My God! What a frightening thing to go though . Couldn't believe how cars where around.
I am in Biloxi, Mississippi and we have SEVERE Thunderstorms! They take out our power every 10 seconds. We had one last night and it was scary. There was lightning every 5 seconds. But at 5:48 am I got woken up by a big thunder that took out the power for a minute. At school, Our power didn't go out. But there were big cracks of thunder. We were also in Hurricane Zeta. It was a cat. 2. At 8:30 - 8:40 PM, our power went out. It was out for 48 hours. During the hurricane, We heard one of those pipe for the water to come out things fall. No trees fell. Just Devastating damage. Someone's boat was gone. There were just pieces. It was so scary. About the traffic lights, Nothing was left of those. There were a couple of intersections still working. SO MUCH TRAFFIC! We had to charge devices in our car.
Geez! That's crazy!
Just looking at the glass blowouts on the Capital One building. It appears as though the winds were much stronger lower down with hardly any windows broken near the top.
You may be right; just off camera to the right, the tight space between our parking garage and the Capital One building may have created a wind tunnel effect that locally increased wind speeds in this area.
Trey, that is a really impressive video on the ferocity of Hurricane Laura ! Have you ever experienced tornadoes generated by hurricanes rather than ordinary supercell tornadoes ?
N. Thank you so much! I haven’t actually seen tornadoes produced by supercells in the outer bands, but we did experience some mesovortices orbiting around the inner eyewall.
My boyfriend is there doing the clean up and it’s just heartbreaking!!! This hurricane was like a constant tornado for hours soon hours!!! Lake Charles is in ruins!! It’s so sad because there truly isn’t a lot of media coverage there!! My boyfriend said it’s like an atomic bomb went off
@@GretchenMayeaux I am sorry to hear about all the storm damage in Lake Charles.
@@GretchenMayeaux Major props to your boyfriend! Praying Lake Charles can get back on its feet soon.
@@MadWXChasing these vorticies run horizontal???
that’s my city that’s my home town where i still live
it’s destroyed it’s me not gonna be back to normal
Me too man.... Me to. 4 Acres of woods right down the road from Prien Lake Park, looks like God came in with a chainsaw, chopped the tops of every tree, If not ripped apart it was smashed to the ground as a whole.
Same😭😭 lost everything to this storm.
Notice the image of a face formed in the clouds in the first 20secs of the video....
What is that glow in the middle of the street at 8:22? Brilliant video!
Thanks so much! That glow is coming from another chaser's vehicle that was shining its headlights and light bar to help illuminate the dark scene.
Wow...I can't believe people were out while glass was flying. I'm in Vernon Parish and have damage to my house and car. Still without SuddenLink but it doesn't bother me.
That power outage on 1:27 was like a bolt to me
Been going a couple days a week to help out!! Crazy how bad it is in LC
I don't live there, but I will still say thank you. Our country needs more folks like yourself.
I was actually born in Lake Charles so it upsets me that a hurricane affected my hometown and my family down there.
This video is the best but even this don't tell the damage we have...you would have to see it your self to believe it.
Thank you! I agree, it was pretty sobering seeing the damage firsthand.
Yes, I've never seen anything like it. We came back into town at around 7 and the destruction was UNBELIEVABLE.
We aaalllliiivvvveeee. We are just getting electricity back. Mine just came back yesterday although i dont have a house anymore 😂 low key depressing but we louisiana strong we got this
Do you have any idea what the sustained wind speed was at that location? How about the highest gusts? Do you have prior experience to compare this to other hurricanes? Thanks.
I’d say the highest gusts were about 135 mph at our location, with sustained winds topping out at around 115 mph or so, maybe slightly higher. This is the strongest hurricane I have actually experienced. Thanks for watching!
National geographic released the stats. Peaked at 150 mph. Strongest winds in the last 100 years or so. People are still suffering in the aftermath.
@@imafake2807 150mph is what I saw when it was approaching. The highest measured wind speed that I've seen was 131 at the mid-channel buoy (over water). The highest wind speed I saw recorded on land was 127mph. My wife's aunt's house in Lake Charles flooded during Rita but stayed dry this time. However, a large tree fell on her house and came thru the roof. We got lucky this time but I know what it's like to suffer in the aftermath of a hurricane.
I was there through the whole hurricane it was HORRIBLE‼ i seen trees up root tornados every where we lost all our stuff😞😞 some of us don't have nothing left...This was an eye opener for me...i will never stay for another one...and to this day we still having a hard time...no where to stay 😢
Man, I’m so sorry to hear that. Praying for you and everyone else to get back on your feet as soon as possible.
I don't understand why that building isn't using hurricane resistant glass or at least interior shutters.
My 22yr old life is that guy being told to GET OUT OF THERE! 😂
With covid rules also still in motion this just might be the worse shape our city ever been in! It will definitely take years 😩
Scariest moment of my life man. And this 13 minute video was really like 4 hours of torment lol
Yeah, the onslaught seemed to last forever. Glad you made it out ok.
@@MadWXChasing you and your crew too. I'll tell you what tho, I never will again haha
Wow, great video man
Thank you!
@@MadWXChasing you're welcome, some of the best video I've seen so far 👍👍
What a tremendous job these guys did
I almost cried when I saw the capital one building my dads house is not too far away from there
So happy I left lol my cousin and uncle live next door to me said it was terrifying
Louisiana's traffic lights though.
Nope, just the smaller city’s of Louisiana, that our governor does not care about. To update our city, with our tax paying dollars. 😩
We know. 😥.... let’s see if they update them now, that our entire home is wiped out. 😃
Most of them had to be repaired. Very few were fully blown away
I watched it over. What about the traffic lights? They look normal
@@kms409 They built Ford tough because them suckers were not moving! Lol
whom ever was walking around by that Building with all the glass breaking is not too bright
1:05 wendys sigh be like "i see what you did there"
I live in Grant Parish about 100 miles Northeast ofLake Charles, Laura huffed and she puffed til she blew every power line in this Parish down! 100 percent outage we went 13 days without ,some people still without power! We didn't see a lot of rain but the wind was unlike anything I've ever seen, the damage to property is great because of all the trees that came down and will continue to fall for months to come!
Wow, that is incredible! Hoping that your area can clean up and get back on its feet as soon as possible.
Lake charles is my home town #lakecharlesstrong
hurricane laura destroyed my home and many people i knows homes pray for lake charles!!
So how many hours laura was? For me when i was in hurricane andrew it was 8hours that last through midnight and until 7am in morning that day back in august 24 1992 i lived concret house build from 1950s which flat roof home during time hurricane andrew.
Wow! Conditions started deteriorating about 10pm, and the eyewall hit us just after 1am. Things finally started calming down around 5-6am. Thanks for watching!
Wow that's awesome
I went to cashotta casino in kinder la and it was still pretty bad left from west lake
Lost my home to along with many others. All I have left is what I brought with me
So sorry to hear that...sending my best to you.
Same, friend! We are all going to get through this ❤️
and man this is crazy me and my family had to evacuate to houston bc of this
I hope you all are ok!
In the North Atlantic Ocean and Northeast Pacific, they are called hurricanes. But if the same type of disturbance takes place in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, it is known as a typhoon. And in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, cyclone is the correct term
Thank you for showing the truth.
I live in southeast Texas, and I haven’t evacuated since Hurricane Ike. This was like Rita
Very intense!
I’m from Louisiana and Hurricane Laura really got use and it was so bad
I lost my home and everything in it from the storm. all I have is a small bag of clothes and the necessities. I have my pets and my family by my side. we’ve been living in a hotel since the storm and don’t even know what time is anymore. my heart goes out to all the rest of the people in louisiana. we’re hurting but we’re going to be okay. one day at a time
I'm so sorry to hear that. Sending my best to you and your family.
Great footage!!!
Thanks so much!
@@MadWXChasing you are welcome 🌀🌀
I can't believe Hurricane Laura knocked out the powerlines!!!
"MOM, IS RAINING SIDE WAYS!"
I used to work in that building.
I’m a resident of this city and this place is so fractured and depressed. The physical damage to this city is fixable but the mental health here sucks so much. Fema can’t fix that or at least they won’t try.
I live here too, I swear at this point people are just disaster fatigued. I know there has to be mass ptsd and everyone is so short tempered and angry. I feel so badly for everyone here and I just hope we start catching some breaks soon..
We were there to help to restore power total devestation especially hard under covid restrictions many prayers to t
You
Pray for Louisiana
It makes me angry seeing people talk about how cool it is seeing these things get ripped apart. My house was one of those things. My friends houses. My neighbors. Our jobs. It’s been two weeks since I’ve been home bc my house isn’t livable so instead I’m staying 4 hours away and have no idea when I’m going to get to go back and same with so many others. It’s not a movie. This town was people’s home. It’s still fresh and I understand that the whether is crazy and cool to watch it just sucks seeing our homes be destroyed and people using it for their entertainment. Watching this just leaves a pit in my stomach
Couldn't agree more! I lost everything to laura, I'm still in shock!
As storm chasers, we enjoy witnessing and experiencing Mother Nature's power from up close. But, there's always a flip side to that; we hate seeing the aftermath and how these storms affect people's lives. We try our best to spread the word about these storms' impacts and help out where we can.
The downed power lines electrified water in areas. Anyone unfortunate enough to come into contact with that before the power disconnected, was fried alive. My husband witnessed 2 of the people he went to rescue from being trapped in their homes come to that end. He reactivated himself to aid the local guard unit as a medic
I stayed for this storm in Vinton Louisiana let me just say never ever will I do that again it was the craziest and scariest experience of my life especially when you heard the tornadoes touching down yea f that
Do not mess with mother nature, that's for sure.