Check out these amazing and awful pictures taken 8/30/05 over the Plaqumines Parish area in SE Louisiana at this website:
plaquemines parish pictures
This is near the area where we took out of (Venice, LA) while deep sea fishing this past spring. I just hope all the great people I met down there evacuated the area, especially Captain Kevin Beach, a fellow Mearle Haggard fan and duck hunter in addition to being one hell of a saltwater fisherman and captain of the PALE HORSE.
This area is also the operating hub for the majority of offshore oil drilling in the gulf. Every major oil company was represented in Venice Harbor and there were at least 3 or 4 different helipad airports where workers departed and arrived at all hours of the day & night.
There are a lot of working poor down there with nothing more than a flimsy trailer for a home. I seriously doubt they could afford the gas to evacuate if they even had a vehicle in the first place. I would be surprised if there were many survivors. God bless the people searching for survivors right now.
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