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Shirley Parish
Posted on Facebook by Shawn Davis Thierry
The Red Cross has disaster supply and food sites at the following locations: Huber Park, 2401 Fourth Ave., Lake Charles (replaces the Civic Center); 2000 Moeling St., Lake Charles; Market Basket on Third Avenue in Lake Charles. They will provide items such as cots, mops, brooms, buckets, PPE, snacks and bottled water. Partnering with the Southern Baptists, Red Cross will also be providing two meals daily at these sites..Starting @ 12
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Hot meals
As I sit to type this post, I don’t even know where to begin. The last 24 hours have felt like a week out of a bad science fiction novel. One news story I overhead said Laura is the “strongest hurricane to hit Louisiana in 150 years.”
Several realities I must convey to you...
Water: our water plants took a beating. Our capacity is a fraction of what it should be. There is barely a trickle of water coming out of most faucets in the homes of Lake Charles. We are working as quickly as possible to remedy this. I wish I had a firm ETA.
Power: basically same situation as above. Unless Entergy has released something that I very well could have missed, we also don’t have an ETA on power restoration.
So basically, if you come back to Lake Charles to stay, make sure you understand the above reality and are prepared to live in it for many days, probably weeks. “Look and Leave” truly is the best option for many.
Your City Employees worked their tails off today. Both public safety and other essential employees that stayed over have performed with passion and professionalism. I thank all of them again. We are putting the pieces back together as quickly as possible.
We took a major blow from Hurricane Laura, no doubt, but as I look around Lake Charles, I see things that are fixable, things that can be rebuilt, even better. We’ve done this before and we’ll do it again. We’ll do it because it’s in our DNA as Lake Charles.
From the desk of
Mayor Hunter
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