Port Fourchon, La Hurricane Ida landfall point aftermath from drone

Drone video of Port Fourchon, La where Hurricane Irma made landfall.

[@kazamareenkurios8197]

Your channel offered outstanding coverage of a horrific storm....truly appreciate how you went above & beyond to help others as well.

[@WxChasing]

Thank you both. I really "enjoyed" doing it. Hopefully it will be a while before the next one.

[@jeanettenance1366]

Hi guys 👋😊 I don't know if you saw my post the other day but I saw a snippet of your video coverage on my local news 👍. Great job. Hope you are getting some rest.

[@staridwork4902]

Great video. Actually shows the damage. Media coverage has been poor

[@JCASTELLUCCIOJR]

Media coverage shows more the idiot announcer/reporter playing STUPID-MAN in harms way...thinking they are heroes! RESL HEEOES ARE OUR MILITARY PAST & PRESENT... more-so; those who did not return AND those coming back broken up!🙏🙏🙏

[@riverice7]

All coastal dwellers should watch this video. When authorities ask for people to evacuate ….see video of why you should pack up and RUN 🏃‍♂️

[@mahtoosacks]

Yea. But there were still people in Fourchon. They were on boats, and thankfully they were ok. I evacuated and I'm almost 2 hr drive inland from here. Lot of people stayed. This wasn't a good one to stay for.

[@barbaraamoroso7020]

How does anyone even begin to clean up such devastation much less afford to rebuild and start over? It is almost to much for the mind to wrap it self around. God grant the people the strength and peace to get through what lays ahead of them. The cost is beyond comprehension.

[@josephsaia5527]

So glad I now live in Arkansas after living 70 years in Lafourche /Terrebonne. This video hits home for me as for 30 years I ran a wholesale Fishing supplies business running up and down the Bayous resupplying my customers. I see some of my ole customers have major damage

[@Raymond-rr5iv]

I saw you first video and I was utterly stunned. I was in the middle of Hurricane Andrew that had tagged a wind meter at 250 miles per hour. It knocked down buildings and reduced housing developments to ruble. I was totally disenfranchised. But your footage and what these people must have gone through redline's anything that I have experienced or saw. Your video footage is far superior to anything that I seen on the news. A lot of people must have died.

[@diannaguidry378]

Actually very few fatalities. I think there were 2 in all of Louisiana as a direct result of the storm. There were more who died after the storm due to heat, co2, criminally mishandled elderly evacuation, etc.

[@draggy6544]

Would rather shovel 6 feet of snow with my hands than deal with that mess

[@nik0410]

That's incomprehensible damage. Gonna take alot for those people and the environment to recover...hoping they don't get any more hurricanes this season

[@GREATLORDPOOH]

Amazing footage from some good hearted people

[@rjmoney9]

stunning footage...

[@augggie]

Most people look at the destruction, I am amazed how much survived!

[@mikeoneil2281]

exactly more than i thought

[@ttgk8506]

I was surprised how many big sheet metal buildings survived with minimal damage

[@Angelo-fo8de]

Amazing work !

[@bsoutdooradventures9541]

My friend UTuber Pelican Bone shows how Louisiana Strong cleans up their houses and how neighbors rally together. It is one hour at a time. , one day at a time. The mud is the hardest. Hurts to see this ...SW Cajun lady . Best drone video!

[@russellsteele9675]

Great footage.

[@margaretleboeuf6765]

Great drone footage of Fourchon

[@raulmorales9967]

Thanks for the video.

[@fritzkabeano1969]

I was expecting even more damage (eye landfall here) but as the Grand Isle aerial footage shows the northeast quadrant of a hurricane does the most damage.

[@freebird7284]

excellent video of destruction, would be interesting to see a back to back video before and after something like this event for comparison taking exact same path. thanks

[@brianscott1092]

Devastation everywhere....Look like every single building was touched and damaged in some way by that horrific hurricane.... It will take years on top of years to rebuild that town. I hope and pray that no other hurricanes hit Louisiana this year, nor years down the road , it will wipe that State off the map. All of my family that lives in Louisiana I pray for your safety. 🙏. I pray for Louisiana as whole.🙌....

[@LANDSHARKK]

They should be building concrete masonry block, not all wood...like we do here in South florida.

[@Matt_from_Florida]

*Since 1994 in Florida* all private homes must be built to survive the winds of a cat 3 hurricane without damage. Those regulations followed the aftermath of hurricane Andrew 2 years prior. Right after Andrew from atop an overpass of The RR Turnpike for as far as we could see there remained only the concrete slabs from the homes which used to be there. When we get bad hurricanes (in Florida) it's easy to tell the pre-code from the after-code homes.

[@jennysmith3906]

Every time I watch this is makes me cry! Prayers for these families…. May God bless Louisiana 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸 Louisiana folks are generational survivors! 💪🏼🤟🏼 They got this and Gods got them!

[@celeno31]

impressive!

[@everready19373]

Watch the price of lumber go through the roof again.

[@philliplively1905]

Thanks for sharing

[@rainncorbin8291]

You misspelled Port Fourchon on your title.

[@snottgrass8001]

I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS JUST A ROAD MADE OF SHELLS AND TALL GRASS.THEN a tiny little store opened after a small dock was built,,,,"good ole days".THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN!""

[@hambone2335]

I worked for years down there and from the 1990s watched people start building houses and businesses. I knew eventually a hurricane would hit there, but I am surprised how well it took the strong side of the hurricane. A lot of these homes had the right construction to take 100 mph + winds and were on stilts high enough to take the storm surge. My issue working down there is how easy it is for the only road to get there goes underwater. From the way it looks they can clean up and rebuild in no time. Should be up and running in 3 years time.

[@diannaguidry378]

40% of the homes are gone. 100% have damage. The drone footage does not really show it all. From the air some of the roofs look great, but from the ground some of those homes have major damage. Some of the road in was badly damaged. That in itself will probably take quite some time to repair, especially on a Louisiana timeline.

[@CaptainDayne]

Was that the dredge ship Glen Edwards ? In the dry dock. Last clip.

[@richardnone5644]

i hope when they rebuild they will build to a hurricane code like we do in south Florida

[@ttgk8506]

Everything built in that area needs to be concrete

[@CaptainDayne]

It is built to hurricane code.

[@doolittlegeorge]

Had no idea there was that much infrastructure let alone housing there so absolutely agree everything going forward should be built to handle a Category 5 hurricane and indeed a lot did survive. Anyhow that's some really nice building material strewn about. The Port of New Orleans has already re-opened so the economy there has obviously no need for any US Federal aid dollars other than what already be had.

[@JCASTELLUCCIOJR]

@@doolittlegeorge NOLA politicians will historically 'use' the Fed $$$$ for other than intended and somehow will be unable to show accountability! The present NOLA mayor went into the election owing ($90.K) back taxes/credit card and still won the election...GO FIGURE!!!

[@diannaguidry378]

@@doolittlegeorge New Orleans is not the whole state. Terrebonne/Lafourche/St Charles took a direct hit and sustained catastrophic damage. Many do need help.

[@tomfinland9572]

Fluff from Main Stream media hasn't even given us a clue how bad this horrific storm was.. thanks to you for the truth

[@Thyalwaysseek]

The MSM are really downplaying how bad the destruction from this hurricane was.

[@markviereck4547]

Why not show the houses that are in great condition. Why are they still standing. If you build the house correct it will last through these storms. I’ve seen it in many places. It can be done. There are buildings in the Caribbean that are hundreds of years old and still standing after dozens of hurricanes. I’ve stayed in them.

[@artfisher1235]

Hurricane straps? Other contractors will understand what I am referring to...

[@wxgator]

Not as bad as Katrina did to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2005 but pretty close.

[@JodianGaming]

Amazing how you can have one house almost completely untouched right beside another house that's absolutely obliterated. I'll take our Northern winters over that mess anytime.

[@breakfastsausage]

thank you

[@CarolSteinfeld]

My friend is stuck in a ship at Allied Shipyard there. I didn't see it in the footage.

[@jamesschneider2091]

The preseason is over - welcome to kickoff of the regular hurricane season!

[@pamhunter8834]

🇨🇦 Gotta wonder, who was the first person to decide it was smart to build at or below sea level?

[@tenbeertwoknife3443]

That would be a man named Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, a French military officer from Canada in 1699.

[@drvonnostrum2671]

Same kinda people who build condos and houses up and down every coastline in the world...

[@jfrmfrjm]

@@grizzomble Snow? That is hardly a parallel. You certainly have no experience of snow.

[@chuckychuck]

The same people that were laughing at global warming or living in denial, luxury and lavish livingstyle came to an conclusion for all mankinds, those days are long gone, this beautiful planet is suffering and all mankind will suffer right along with her, it going to be a long suffering, this planet is in the reset mode and evolution is at work.

[@Thyalwaysseek]

@@grizzomble Snow doesn't do this amount of damage.

[@coletteg.4548]

Wow terrible!!! Prayers for Louisiana 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@johnmclean2010]

Gas prices are going up

[@patricklamshear6662]

What do you expect.

[@johnmclean2010]

@@patricklamshear6662 for them to go up, like I said

[@JCASTELLUCCIOJR]

Lets shut down more petroleum production complexes as this bozo administration has done and continues!

[@johnmclean2010]

@@JCASTELLUCCIOJR You realize this was a hurricane, AKA Act of God. I'm sure the port will rebuild

[@lanmech7397]

What do they call it if you keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Keep rebuilding

[@aaronlane8276]

Insanity

[@nottawa86]

Fourchon*

[@bm3211]

Were all those concrete slabs houses before and they got torn apart?

[@sendintheclowns7305]

Most of those houses are actually fishing camps and they're built elevated on posts driven deep into the soil. Those concrete slabs are driveways and parking lots.

[@JCASTELLUCCIOJR]

Concrete slabs were building foundations (camps, drives leading to buildings, storage places, etc...)!!!

[@bm3211]

Okay. I was like dang.

[@astrogeo1]

Did anyone stay here during the hit ?

[@josephcharlemagne3918]

Amen and Amen

[@ronniebattle1310]

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[@jrbland18]

Sending prayers. God BLESS you all. Help is on the GROUND.

[@ronniebattle1310]

Encounter Ministries (Mark Hemans) KZbin page.

[@VisualAFMedia]

Fourchon

[@elenak4353]

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[@quakecon2009]

I wonder how many other countries will now be rushing to Americas aid with help. Don't hold your breathe.

[@diannaguidry378]

We don't even hold our breath waiting for our own government to rush in with aid.

[@Andy-je3el]

Looks like the place came through pretty well considering they took a cat 4 to the face.

[@drvonnostrum2671]

seriously???

[@Andy-je3el]

@@drvonnostrum2671 yeah. Seriously. I guess you’ve never been through a hurricane.

[@drvonnostrum2671]

@@Andy-je3el i lived in nola for katrina. So, yeah

[@Andy-je3el]

@@drvonnostrum2671 and especially compared to Katrina this isn’t that bad and you know it.

[@drvonnostrum2671]

@@Andy-je3el you are clueless

[@pelicanus2197]

Learn to spell. It's Port Fourchon.

[@matchthat5053]

I hope they get help from FEMA. This is so sad.

[@vickylanding2830]

Devastation somethings just not right repent of your sins in except Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior

[@michellethibodeaux1006]

I wasn't at all trying to be rude. I just didn't want an unbeliever to misunderstand.

[@emilyganguly277]

@@michellethibodeaux1006 Yeah texas and louisi got hit hard for attacking womens rights. god doesnt like that

[@randyk7699]

It is all about choices!

[@funnyguy8728]

With what will happen with the price of lumber now its could be profitable to salvage instead of destroy.

[@timroach5260]

the price of lumber just went up......

[@miniminamanmina3715]

What does it cost for insurance on your homes in these coastal areas that get hit like this every few years. Is it government flood insurance only.

[@Katheros98]

I had flood insurance when I lived in SC and it all goes through FEMA.

[@UpToNoGoodTTV]

Insurance outside of the levee system is very expensive. But a ton of the people that live outside the levee system can’t afford to move inland

[@UpToNoGoodTTV]

btw I’m from here

[@miniminamanmina3715]

@J B Wow , I pay few dollars over a thousand for homeowners insurance I'm about a Mile from Delaware River in NJ at 55 feet above sea level on the Northern East part of NJ Coastal Plain so I don't need flood Insurance on a home ,pole barn on one acre tax assessed at 289 k . My sister is on Long Beach Island NJ Barrier Island on coast she has to have flood insurance and regular homeowners also . Not sure what she pays but a lot more than me inland . I believe she is around 5 k a year . Jersey coast gets hit about ever 10 years hard with flooding , but not anywhere as hard as you guys get it . Although we did have Sandy and Irene do a number on us and crazy increase in hard thunderstorms and tornados last 5 years . * Tornados within 30 miles of my home 8 of them this year . Although smaller than the big mid west ones they still take out trees blow off roofs ,take down power lines , one in PA about 15 miles from my house this summer piled a bunch cars together at a dealership . Something is changing in the weather in my 70 years.

[@staridwork4902]

As a guide the parish areas post katrina were paying around 2 dollars rate. With a 5 percent hurricane deductible. That dropped drastically as the insurance market softened and more insurers came in, to the all time lows of around 25 cents and a 2 percent deductible. It should never have dropped. Rates will soar back up and make living in frame shacks on the coast an expensive luxury. Given these should be built to the same codes as florids now. Katrina….laura…ida….also… gustav, nate, delta, the fact you can get insurance here is a mystery. They have only ever lost money in this area. By 2 dollar rate i mean multiple the building cost by 2 percent. So a 10m property would pay 200k. That is effectively saying its a 1 in 50 year event. Total loss every 50 years. Its been a total loss closer to 10…… hence the 0.25 percent or cents rate just made no sense

[@sueoreiro703]

Looking at the videos I’ve seen this week I hope someone is figuring why one house looks untouched while every house around them is devastated or just a cement pad remaining. Clearly these storms are not ending and hopefully the lessons learned about construction design that has withstood this event can be used to rebuild these communities in a manner that only minor damage will result in future events. It is so hard to wrap my brain around the forces that these communities deal with year after year. They not only lose their homes and possessions but often their place of work no longer is in condition to continue to pay them. I feel so badly for each family who are facing rebuilding their lives.

[@chuckychuck]

It call the work of God.

[@Thyalwaysseek]

Hurricanes are only going to get more stronger and more frequent perhaps people should be figuring why you would rebuild in these areas at all.

[@JCASTELLUCCIOJR]

Notice there are hardly any trees. There is a very small group (6-10) ALL CYPRESS HOUSES SURROUNDED BY TREES...most were built 100+ years ago AND THEY ARE STILL-STANDING AFTER IDA!!!

[@SD-pi9co]

Water comes, washes dirt away

[@mrblock1318]

You can tell the well built ones from the bad ones quite easily with this kind of disaster.

[@hurricanemichael4828]

The well built ones are uninhabitable due to flood damage

[@007vsMagua]

I seems to me, if people living along the coast designed their roofs along a traditional hip roof design, used heavy guage metal with 3" x #12 Hex Screws, made sure their trusses and walls are secured with hurricane brackets, I believe the damage could be more limited.

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

Wxc de la muter PETRUSlah Heli pakai kerja muter PETRUSlah

[@alexandervanwyk7669]

Sjoe but you rich people can accumulate lots of stuff/ rubble!

[@theothertroll]

Doesn’t look so bad 🤪

[@fozman845]

Yep another location 18ft below sea level. Every storm that's come thru has taken out that port. (Katrina,gustov, rita,Ida)

[@robbyturner1207]

The elevation is actually above sea level. This is an extremely important port that services about 90% of the offshore gulf market which provides about 20% of the oil and natural gas needed to run this country.

[@fozman845]

@@robbyturner1207 bro I lived and worked in Louisiana for 20 years. I have seen it go thru several hurricanes and every single one has flooded that area destroyed just about everything.

[@robbyturner1207]

@@fozman845 yes it’s vulnerable that’s true, but it’s not 18’ below sea level.

[@fozman845]

@@robbyturner1207 that's funny I have seen highway 1 before they put the toll road pass with a 90 deg turn all underwater. Everything routed thru Houma ports. So yea storm surge can go that high.. that's why a bunch of homes are jacked up

[@robbyturner1207]

@@fozman845 yes of course storm Surge is another matter. If you were to look at it that way Manhattan Island is about 23’ below. It’s just a matter of time before it happens there. All coastal areas have that potential I suppose. Just saying by definition under normal circumstances it’s not officially below sea level (yet I might add). It will be with 50 years because the coast line in that area is sinking. Thank you for us having a civil conversation. Appreciate the banter. 😊

[@rotorbeam1]

One things that is surprisingly missing is solar power installation anywhere. Should would be useful today.

[@christopherhenson7034]

Ha, there were some solar panels....

[@macmedic892]

Ah yes, all those buildings without roofs really should have had solar panels. That would make them heavier so they don’t blow so far away.

[@rotorbeam1]

@@macmedic892 Well for the houses that would have a good installation, it sure would be better as a back-up than being without electricity for weeks and possibly months, if it survived the storm, of course. There are still lots of roofs standing out there.

[@staridwork4902]

Try getting insurance for that……..

[@Thyalwaysseek]

Not really, if the wiring or batteries have been sitting in sea water those solar panels would be useless, not to mention the solar panels being blown off with the roofs.

[@davidoverstreet2875]

That's what happens when you stupidly decide to live in a hurricane-prone swamp. It's obvious which houses used screws and which ones used nails. If it's nails, it sails, if it screws, you rarely lose. 😆

[@EddieRobertsRiverGypsy]

They are feeding you; stupid. Many of these are shrimp, crab and fish processing plants, seasonal recreational fishing homes but some are commercial fishermen's homes so they can be close to their jobs. The stupidty of some comments amaze me. Check back in 2 months. Louisiana rebuilds rapidly and goes right back to work. White collar work.

[@davidoverstreet2875]

@@EddieRobertsRiverGypsy wanting to be closer to their jobs is an idiotic excuse. No safety concerns whatsoever for future disasters. so this is what saving hundreds of dollars in fuel over several decades eventually got them. hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage that could have been avoided. Idiots. No forethought whatsoever. Or, the retarded, childish, 'it'll never happen to us' attitude. So glad I don't live in the completely insane South anymore.

[@JustinKais]

@@davidoverstreet2875 What state did you move your stupidity to?

[@AmericanConstellation]

This is what happens when you live on the gulf coast. Sorry...I've seen it for 64 years now. Either deal with it or don't move here.

[@rawtruth1602]

You sound ridiculously pitiful!! Sickening!!

[@viastephtop]

Speaking with compassion should be your only response while viewing this. Anything else indicates a real deficit in your character.

[@christopherhenson7034]

What you see here mostly is a port facility. Last time I checked, to be a port you have to be near the water.

[@AmericanConstellation]

@@viastephtop You see? You are a young lady. You don't have any common sense. You need compassion and common sense. You're halfway there.

[@AmericanConstellation]

@@rawtruth1602 Sorry. Learn some common sense, otherwise you will get burned!

[@ivanw3656]

Waste lands

[@simonmultiverse6349]

I used to say "As flat as a pancake." I think that, from now on, the best way of describing a flat thing should be "as flat as Port Fouchon after a hurricane."

[@KevinTheDogGuy]

Millions missing presumed dead 😢 💔 😔

[@diannaguidry378]

Not even close to true

[@KevinTheDogGuy]

@@diannaguidry378, I know where Gabby is....

[@PacoOtis]

Pitiful and weak! Apparently an adult did not review this video prior to release! Uhmm?

[@spicyradish2192]

Seems like the fauci ouchi is giving you some brain damage. Maybe a 3rd or 4th booster shot will help