Well over a year after Hurricane Laura ripped apart Lake Charles and the surrounding area, many folks there still haven’t recovered from the onslaught of the storm. Mayor Nic Hunter says they hold a record of sorts for disasters.
“We have been affected by more federally declared disasters over a year period than any other city in American history,” said Hunter.
Hunter says they are still playing the waiting game for the much-needed supplemental disaster aid to assist in the continued efforts to try and get his city back to a sense of normalcy.
“There are some neighborhoods within Lake Charges that literally look like Hurricane Laura hit yesterday,” said Hunter.
Hunter is taken aback by the lack of a quick federal response to the needs of Laura’s victims.
“I’ve just gotta be blunt at this point that it makes us feel like we are less American than some of the other communities that were affected by a singular natural disaster over the past 20 or 30 years,” said Hunter.
He labels it “a political animal.”
The mayor believes that between six to eight percent of the city’s residents are still disbursed outside Lake Charles with some perhaps never to return. As for the remaining damage in the city, Hunter estimates there are still upwards of one thousand structures that still need to be demolished after Hurricane Laura.
Comments