All throughout Lafourche, residents are assessing the catastrophic damage left in the wake of Hurricane Ida. Captain Brennan Matherne, with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s office, said there is some good news in South Lafourche.
“The levees that were self-made that people of South Lafourche taxed themselves and built their own levees those held up against the worst storm that we’d seen in the last couple hundred years,” Matherne said.
Cell service in the parish has been described as spotty from top to bottom with even Police radios struggling and forcing deputies to jump from tower to tower. Matherne said that the destruction left by the storm was indiscriminate.
There are flooding issues as well.
“In the Des Allemands area where US Highway 90 is actually covered with water at this time. State Police are going out to the site and are going to monitor in case traffic has to be shut down or rerouted somehow,” Matherne said.
Roads extending from Thibodaux to the flood gates in Golden Meadow have been cleared but residents aren’t allowed to travel down to Grand Isle and Port Fourchon.
Matherne says there’s not one structure in Lafourche Parish that doesn’t have some sort of damage.
“Some homes just have a couple of shingles missing and a neighbor next door might have their entire roof gone. It’s just like tornado damage jumping from house to house,” Matherne said.
Parish officials have announced that evacuated residents can come home, but basic utilities are not available.
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