![]() ![]() Born at home in Indian Creek, Louisiana and taken to the hospital the next day, Thomas says his mother figured she “might as well” name him Hurricane. “I think it’s a lot worse than Rita,” says Hurricane Thomas, who was born in 1957 in the middle of Hurricane Audrey. To say a storm was worse than 2005’s Hurricane Rita is to say it was very bad. In the Gulf Coast region, where hurricanes are part of life, residents use past storms like units of measurement. In terms of physical destruction, Terrell and his teammates say Laura is the worst hurricane they’ve ever seen. “But you get here and think, holy shit this is bad.” ![]() “You get all excited, pumped up to make money,” says Terrell of anticipating the next job. When a storm hits, the crew moves in, offering their services to remove fallen trees. Jack-“like lumberjack”-Terrell is a professional tree-cutter who follows storms around the country for the company Down and Out. ( Find out how storm surges can be so dangerous.) Though much of the region was spared the deadly surge of ocean water that officials had warned of, the wind caused an estimated $8-$12 billion in damage. The hurricane slammed into the coast late Wednesday morning, with150 mph winds that blew for hours. Hurricane Laura was one of the strongest storms to strike this portion of the Gulf, where Louisiana and Texas begin to blend together, where French immersion schools and cowboy hats are equally common. With high temperatures and humidity that pushes the heat index over 100 degrees, Lake Charles’ residents are facing suffocating heat, a pandemic-and now what they say is the worst storm damage they’ve ever seen. ![]()
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