Grand Isle, La worst damage from Hurricane Ida- levee breaks- drone 4k

[@Thyalwaysseek]

Wow the media are totally underplaying how bad the damage from this hurricane was, haven't seen anything reported about this on the MSM.

[@nicolewembley3093]

Wow! Looks a lot like Mexico Beach in Florida after hurricane Michael in 2018. Lots of leveled and partially destroyed homes. When do people realize its not so smart building so close to the ocean. This is the 3rd hurricane to hit Louisiana in 1 years time. Yes its a beautiful area most of the time, now it looks like a war zone it will take years to rebuild if they choose to do so.

[@OilBarron84]

it's not about being close to the ocean, it's that the area is prone to big tropical storms and hurricanes and that it' is at or below sea level - a very bad combination. Most coast line in the world is up 5-10 feet minimum.

[@Dagger-Moose]

Its incredibly smart actually. The views are stunning. The walk to the beach is minimal. The sea breeze, the sound of ocean waves. To top it all off you get a brand new home built after it gets wiped out in a storm, courtesy of insurance. It doesnt matter where you build in the big picture. Tornados, earth quakes, floods, fires, there is no safe space in life.

[@markpalavosvrahotes5575]

Mexico Beach was a little worse.

[@jaebee9308]

Life is a gamble. There are risks no matter where you choose to live. If you love living on/near the ocean, You build strong, have great insurance and get out of the way when hurricanes are coming. The pay off is, most of your life, you live happily where you want to live. It's pretty simple.

[@DebbiesHomeplace]

Shocking that some houses were unscathed white others were obliviated to pieces, with some totally gone off their foundations. The drone coverage captured the terror indeed. Thanks so much!

[@tonydagostino6158]

No house is unscathed. Just because the frame still stands on the stilts doesn't mean that water wasn't flowing through the structure, at velocity

[@oldmech619]

It would be real interesting to find out why some houses faired so much better than others. Was it the framing, windows failed, roof attachments, where there different years with different specs, or so many other things.

[@jaguardebrasil4387]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@InnerPeaceBeauty]

I'm sure I've seen some of those houses on "beachfront bargains" on the HGTV channel.. Just so sad to see people's homes destroyed like that.. Thank you for the incredible drone footage..

[@shannon5933]

Help is there and more is on the way. Stay strong Louisiana, we're praying for and with you. From one coastline to another, we ♥️ you. Yes, we sandbag here too. 🙏

[@mattoconnell4570]

So many houses were torn totally off their stilts. Crazy.

[@dottybarnes5470]

Heartbreaking. My freinds and i come down to surf fish for bullreds every October or November. Our prayers are with the fine people of grand isle.

[@Deeznuts84356]

The island will be back. But it may take 10 yrs or more. The camps on chef hwy bounced back after Katrina. It takes a while for people to forget about the risk of storms.

[@frankh.4226]

Makes you want to Cry for all the people who have Lost Everything and Suffering now!

[@dtrahan2530]

Wow....so heartbreaking💔

[@southernload5710]

What really gets me is people actually trying to use sandbags to stop an ocean?

[@MeaolaOrg4]

I’m going to say what so many are thinking. This is horrible! But who lives FULL time that close to the GULF OCEAN knowing this stuff happens regularly? Vacation house? Get it…. Full time, forever home? Are you crazy?

[@robertwilson9917]

You hit it right on the head these are rich people with plenty of money that don't need no sympathy

[@robertwilson9917]

Pour me my fifteen-year-old just wrecked my Bentley

[@yvonne2965]

Definitely wouldn’t rebuild there

[@bse1642]

There is nothing rich about Grand Isle.

[@jdl2180]

@@bse1642 except for the expensive summer homes and the million-dollar boats.

[@lovewins-1]

Unbelievable. Great footage

[@RandomJane104]

So sad. I hope everyone survived. I think these homes should not be allowed to be rebuilt. We need to give the ocean some space.

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

Sounds good to me.

[@yvonne2965]

Time to give that land back to Nature cuz she is just gonna keep ripping it to shreds & flooding it too

[@h.f6364]

every single place someone lives has a risk of natural disaster. if you wish to a genie to destroy communities like this, then do it, but dont cry if the city you lived in that was on a floodplain gets torn down

[@RandomJane104]

I live in North Carolina and would not buy a house on the beach. These storms are going to keep coming. Why rebuild in places that keep getting flattened? There are places here prone to repeated flooding where owners have been given fair market value and moved. One apartment complex flooded over and over again requiring repeated swift water rescue. Disasters happen, but places where they happen over and over again should make us behave differently.

[@againstalloddsoutdoors]

@@RandomJane104 I can understand your confusion as to why someone would live down here. Its because you don't live down here thats why you don't understand. This is a way of life for us. This is why the people from the gulf coast are the most resilient people you will ever meet. The culture down here runs deep and not being from here I could see why you wouldn't understand. We will rebuild and continue on, life goes on.

[@bryanlong6888]

You can definitely tell which houses were not up to current hurricane code it’s amazing how any of them are still standing the man who built the ones still standing needs a raise

[@jrbland18]

We LOVE YOU FROM ATLANTA GA.

[@B9Robot]

Prayers Sent.

[@Viperwon]

Really lol. You could donate or help rebuild

[@B9Robot]

@@Viperwon Another CAT ? is coming soon. I don't donate to those who choose to live in the EYE of TROUBLE, One must take in the chance (Which is clear here) that trouble is coming and avoid it. God bless and Please find a way to be kind. Peace and Love be with you and yours. If you live at the bottom of a Hill of Dirt and it rains like cats and dogs often, would you take into account for Mud Slides? This is so simple, yet people live in High Risk Areas and don't take responsibility. Be kind to one another, and find a way to respond to others with that heart. Perhaps you have much to learn, or have avoided that part of becoming a grown up.

[@Viperwon]

@@B9Robot trouble is everywhere its a part of life. I must have avoided the part where donating or helping the people in some other way is better than "sending prayers"

[@Viperwon]

@@REALChannel99 West is fire and earthquakes. Middle is tornados. East is hurricanes and north is snow. Just how it is.

[@saraswinerton7202]

@@Viperwon being rude isn’t going to help either how about you stop criticizing people you don’t know and help

[@whynot2644]

You can see the difference in old and new construction. The new construction held up OK. The building codes need to be strict and the insurance after this will be outrageous I'm sure.

[@hurricanemichael4828]

All those houses are uninhabitable

[@whynot2644]

@tripplefives It is more expensive but insurance companies won't cover you if you don't in some cases. Finding insurance becomes impossible.

[@whynot2644]

@Rebecca Baird Well its sad and a mess. I hate it for everyone involved. I just know after Katrina the Mississippi gulf coast is still not the same. People couldn't afford to rebuild and deal with the high cost of the insurance. Maybe it won't be the same........ lets hope.

[@mapexzildjian6361]

I'm sure a lot of insurance companies are in scramble mode to find loopholes and back door ways to not pay out. I feel sorry for the people that think they're covered and have no idea how crooked some of these insurance companies are going to be.

[@mapexzildjian6361]

@@dissinfo6358 I own a collision shop. Having to battle with insurance companies is a weekly routine for most of us large volume collision centers. Hopefully this will be a non- issue for my fellow south Louisiana's.

[@IMSiegfried]

People are forgetting what happened in Florida after a string of hurricanes. All the insurance companies pulled out of the state.

[@rickski3769]

So they call a 3 foot sand-filled tube a levee ??....against the gulf ?? and you blame who ??

[@jimbob7613]

Great video. My camp WAS about 5 mi north at BBY marina.

[@sw4981]

I bet none of these folks get told that they aren't covered for acts of god.

[@cindylandry7856]

Most cannot get insurance in areas like this.

[@silentleopard1]

Makes you think twice about that retirement house by the beach !

[@jaeeluv]

💯

[@chosenonpurpose489]

2CHRONICLES 7:14 “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

[@dizziechef9502]

What does one do after their house is demolished like this.? How do they recover ? Can any insurance company afford to help all these people to rebuild ? I’m so sorry my Louisiana neighbors.

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

Several years back, I thought I heard that someone was building a dome home .. or maybe several on Grand Isle.. I didn't see any round rubble.. maybe it didn't happen. As soon as I saw the title, that's what came to mind.. if the domes survived.

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

@tripplefives There are a few scattered around Florida and a number of other states too. We were looking into domes about 15 years ago.. maybe 20 and I could have sworn there was a Grand Isle build planned. Is there a Grand Isle in the Carolinas too? It has been a while.

[@hannahcallais2983]

They have one down by the state park that looks okay from the Ariel view

[@laurasplicer712]

If wind blew in opposite direction imagine the debri in ocean floating. smh 😳😳

[@nightengale7163]

Looks like the Bolivar Peninsula after Ike hit Galveston. 💔

[@radstorm]

I read somewhere a while back that down south a lot of building codes got overlooked or ignored due to the inflated building supply costs.. wonder how many of these were victim to that?

[@laurasplicer712]

Wind so.strong it picked up blacktop asphalt crazy.

[@stormgirl09]

a lot of the times its hard to tell if a certain house been destroyed by the wind,surge,or a combo of both! only a few times can you tell the difference. roofless houses would be wind damage. a gutted house would be most likely surge damage. for example.

[@celeno31]

🙏🙏

[@yohan50111]

at somepoint is it worth having a beachfront property when on island when roads are destroyed as well. Also good luck on supply chain on lumber and other materials as there reports of supply chains being severely disrupted throughout.

[@rjo49]

Scenes of destruction, very good shooting. But...am I unique in finding myself wanting to see more detail of the houses that survived, some apparantly almost unscathed? Obviously, a lot of the damage was likely due to being unluckily downstream of structures shedding massive-but-buoyant structural elements, which acted as battering rams pushed along by wave action. I'd bet money that strip where every house is gone to the piling foundations was the victim of one or two such structures on the upwind side. Even a well-designed and well-constructed house would be unable to survive much solid pounding. But there are really quite a few homes mixed in that really aren't even obviously damaged. If I were in the construction or insurance business, shots of those might be worth a lot.

[@WxChasing]

I have another video up that is over 30 minutes and has almost the entire island.

[@ACCOMPLISHEDSHEIS]

Folks buy mobile homes thinking horrific storms wouldn’t break through it. Brick homes would have been better.

[@jrbland18]

HELP IS ON THE GROUND. THEY ARE TRYING TO GET POWER UP BUT THEY HAVE TO REBUILD THE GRID AND REPLACE THE POLES ECT. STAY STRONG LOUISIANA PEOPLE.

[@crockpot5194]

Looking at all the extensive damage abrupt on Louisiana were looking at $320 billion dollars worth of damage

[@aaronlane8276]

Christ said do not build your house upon the sand.

[@leannhayes5444]

Pretty sure that was a parable about living right, not a reference to beachfront houses!

[@sajiddannamirza1529]

Is there any word yet about survivors? They said 40 people stayed down there.

[@tanyabrown9839]

I had heard it was 26 choose to stay and they apparently were calling for help before it even hit at its hardest. I too wonder what happened to them

[@bergkevp1]

They all survived and none of them called for help. It was the police, firefighters, ems and the rest were storm chasers

[@kevinpatrick4408]

A lovely house with great views of the beach! How's that working out for you?

[@nighthiker8872]

Build were you have to replace less. Build were the home has a curb corners, for starters. Just add to the corners with, SIDE PADS. Design were the wind has nothing to hold on to or get a grip. This would not be to hard to do and this would be also affordable. You would "think" insurance companies 30 years ago, would have been looking in on simple design wind prevention. Affordable and adequate living. Build a strong curvature add on to the roof, over hang. That can easily collect water for storage for garden and fruit trees. Design, where the wind can't left-up, ANYTHING. A strong wind hitting your home, what do you do to diver it's force. Design where the wind has NOTHING to hold on to and is diverted away. Take simple steps on building better controlling wind diversion. Retain water for your fruit trees. THEN STUDY THE RESULTS. Look at a school bus design, it's round. Drop long over hangs and lock them along with all shutters. Have nothing that the wind can hold on to, ALSO study the direction of the winds weekly path to your location, before building. Think of a school bus. Have every thing lock down in 15 minutes, when emergencies hit your area.

[@nighthiker8872]

On a 2 story I have bricks on all 4 sides for more stability like a chair gives. If you design a home that can HANDLE the wind of a hurricane. You can document the complete operation.

[@gregjsinclair]

Dear Lord

[@dannyboy8474]

They rebuilt that entire area after Katrina. I saw brand new convenient stores and fire stations and etc.. all of them on stilts just like those houses... guess the stilts need to be higher than they thought.

[@peggyt1243]

The problem is that the stilts are open. The wind gets underneath and lifts the house off the stilts. There needs to be an enclosure around the stilts.

[@bryangallet6801]

@@peggyt1243 You are incorrect, you do not want that, you want water to flow through the bottom. Most codes do not allow a permanent bottom structure for the surge to flow.

[@joyharp1949]

🙏❤️🙏

[@drvonnostrum2671]

levee breaks?? grand isle is...an island. there are no levees.

[@WxChasing]

The dunes have been reinforced to act as levees.

[@drvonnostrum2671]

@@WxChasing 🤣🤣🤣

[@WxChasing]

@@drvonnostrum2671 ​ @DrVonNostrum They call it a "burrito" levee. It's a huge tube that runs down that was reinforced with a heavy rubber matterial, sandbags and rocks. It was partially washed out starting with tropical storm Christobal in 2017 and has been a constant battle after Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta. This is what it looked like before Hurricane Delta. Significant repairs were made after Zeta. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJWVgIirnZqKmZI

[@drvonnostrum2671]

@@WxChasing yeah, as someone from LA... not a levee.

[@WxChasing]

@@drvonnostrum2671 www.nola.com/news/environment/article_af4343ea-dce3-11ea-9b55-6361175140e2.amp.html

[@hasanamir132]

Most Americans thought that this could only happens in the Philippines And they were correct about it So they are looking for the real fact And they got surprised that this had happened in their homeland too

[@frankh.4226]

I’m thinking, the Building Codes down there NEED some Serious Changes!

[@southernload5710]

Uninhabitable for months...

[@kccox9898]

⚓💯🙏🛎🌎🙏

[@AbuUbeidaPalestine]

God is punishing the Zion’s, where is power of America 😂😂

[@jimrossi7708]

It will be rebuilt better than it was, Americans will help one another when it counts, we always do and no troll or devil will stop the good people of the USA 🇺🇸 so enjoy your day !

[@AbuUbeidaPalestine]

@@jimrossi7708 I always enjoy until the end, America is only Stealing, and America lost every war

[@m42037]

So stupid building homes right on the ocean front!

[@timroach5260]

apparently drones fulfill a voyeuristic need in their operators....

[@patriciamiranda1453]

QUE EEUU, MEDITE EN LAS SENDAS ANTIGUAS. ACERQUENSE NUEVAMENTE AL DIOS ETERNO , Y CORRIJAN ¡¡¡ DIOS, LES FORTALEZCA Y AYUDE. EL ¡ ES MISERICORDIOSO. SANTIAGO - CHILE

[@tudorme7680]

The reason why all of these extreme weather disasters are happening, is because to the disrespect, the toxic relationship we as human beings, have treated Mother Earth and Nature in General.

[@alekskraft1327]

☹️

[@er.ernawati.radar.orari.50]

Wxc de la muter PETRUSlah Heli pakai kerja muter PETRUSlah GOODs

[@mattwoody1089]

Show undamaged homes dude

[@17alaina]

There aren't any.

[@WxChasing]

Look at my other video that is almost 40 minutes long instead of clicking on the one that says worst damage if you want to see less damage.

[@gregsimmons694]

Bible says men will fear the raging seas! End times ! Repent people ! JESUS SAVES !!Prayers for these folks!

[@michaelgrabianowski6567]

I can't believe the shoddy construction. I can't believe people are allowed to live in some of these houses.

[@robertwilson9917]

Rich peoples toys they can afford to rebuild them think about home and LaPlace

[@leannhayes5444]

Rich people’s toys? My husband and I have worked all my life to afford a small coastal vacation home and this hurts! No, I can’t afford it ! I am sure you have your own personal preferences of what to do with your leisure time and /or retirement, but don’t assume these destroyed dreams are all “rich people’s toys”!

[@krissgross2335]

@@leannhayes5444my thoughts exactly! My former daughter-in-law lives on Grand Isle and hasn't been able to return to the island to see if her home is still standing. I have sent her drone footage like this, but I don't know if she saw her place or not. My heart still hurts for her and her daughter.

[@chosenonpurpose489]

PEOPLE OF GOD IF YOU ARE READING THIS THE LORD IS TRYING TO GET YOUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION HE’S GIVING YOU ANOTHER CHANCE TO REPENT AND SAVE YOUR SOUL!!! Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior.

[@rootwoman123]

Unless you are Merfolk, please stop building your homes in the sea. Please!

[@bryangallet6801]

should every one from North Carolina to Mexico that live on the coast move, oh New York city got flooded, oh no the fires in California

[@rootwoman123]

@@bryangallet6801 Hey, Boo: You do you. I'm staying away from the coasts and praying for the best. Peace!

[@robertwilson9917]

For me my fifteen-year-old just wrecked my Bentley

[@aaronlane8276]

Why were you letting a 15 year old drive a Bentley?

[@rondaniel1540]

I know most of these people don't believe in climate change but it is slapping us in the face with every fire, flooding and hurricane. So all of these people need to rethink where they will rebuild. Insurance companies and utilities need to decide if they are going to provide services to these areas I residents rebuild in same location.

[@peggyt1243]

Fires, floods and hurricanes have been happening for millennia. Nothing to do with CO2 and man made causes. Al Gore owns beachfront property.

[@rondaniel1540]

@@peggyt1243 exactly, doesn't matter the reason! The climate is changing. Also I wouldn't call this cituation beachfront. Looks more like a sand dunes.

[@rondaniel1540]

@Rebecca Baird I have lived at the beach here in Florida for 25 years and there is beach erosion and there have been homes lost. I know about dunes and nothing will convince me to throw more money for roads and infrastructure in areas that will continue to have strong hurricanes and those roads will again be washed away. I've been through Andrew in south Florida and watched Katrina wrath.

[@johnk5825]

Spent many summers on Grand Isle, it's just a sand bar for rich folks, not one federal dollar should be spent to repair anything.

[@laurasplicer712]

Amen

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

Live by the gulf, you take the risk

[@17alaina]

I'm guessing you have never been on a coastal vacation? People need to live here for tourists. Scientists also live here. People who work on oil barrages. Don't be quick to judge.

[@IMSiegfried]

Tell that to the people in Philedelphia who just experienced a once in 200 years flood event thanks to IDA.

[@stevegallassero7126]

Live anywhere in CALIFORNIA, you take the risk.

[@laurasplicer712]

Grand isle should be banned from anymore building period.

[@mistywhipple3713]

Really?? We lost our place there, along with so many others, and that’s your comment? People have lived there for generations and it’s a wonderful place. If you know nothing about being or living there, learn some compassion, and keep your comments to yourself.

[@stevegallassero7126]

Hope you don’t break a leg.