The mandatory evacuation order in Cameron Parish was finally lifted early this morning for the entire parish. The southwestern coastal parish had been under a mandatory evacuation order since Hurricane Laura made landfall on August 27th. The area then was also impacted weeks later with Hurricane Delta on October 9th.
“The only place we had it left was in lower Cameron, in our Cameron Creole, Grande Chenier area. But we have city water now, it’s not potable,” said Vice President of the Cameron Parish Police Jury, Scott Trahan.
Trahan says now with Louisiana off the radar for Hurricane Eta, tents have been set up to act as a temporary hospital.
“Since these storms are finally hopefully staying away, they tried to put a tent up before to have like an emergency room there just in case something would happen at home, you still have a place for some emergency care, then get you to Lake Charles with the ambulances,” said Trahan.
Trahan says they hope to have power restored in Cameron by the end of the week, but water remains undrinkable.
“We don’t have power restored yet, but a lot of the power lines are up. From what I hear they are setting up generators lie they did in the Grande Lake, Sweet Lake area, until they were able to get power from the power company,” said Trahan.
Evacuation orders were lifted September 25th in the towns of Hackberry, Klondike, and Lowery in Cameron Parish.
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