Holly Beach

[mspullig]

5 yrs after Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast and this is one of the few videos that I've seen up till now that even remotely mention the Cameron Area. Now that's sad, that all of the coverage was all New Orleans all the time when all around for hundreds of miles the devastation was not reported AT ALL!

[tbonz269]

had some good times there

[tbonz269]

i went back home for a visit and went down holly beach it was a far cry of what i remember from back in the day we also had a camp there sad sad

[darkgreenforest]

Did you take any pictures? I haven't been back there since this video. but I've heard stories. Any standing debris piles still?

[whiplash0452]

I live about an hour from holly beach and it was a cool place to go in the summer. But it's slowly coming back to life. It's sad that this town pretty much was blown off the map but all the media could focus on was new orleans and the 9th ward. At least the people there came back to a damage house holly beach came back to an empty lot.

[larameche]

We went to holly beach every summer for about 2 or 3 weeks.

We havent been back since the hurricane.

=(

I miss it so much

[cajunangel]

We used to go to Holly Beach for 4th of July, I'm from New Orleans, I know how it feels to come home to something like this....

[photojunky1]

It was a sad day for all of us . Hard for us and others to come back with all the ristrictions now. But we still go back.

[wcinformer]

WOW! I was deployed to Lake Charles, LA to the Civic Center for Hurricane Katrina. I am with the Red Cross. On my one day off this is the beach I went to. How sad. I would love to go back there. The people are so much nicer than the ones here in Ohio.

[SekruMStevO]

I'm from Lake Charles...I went to that beach as child, its wierd to see it like that. I went down there a few weeks later after the storm and it literally made me sick to my stomach. We've heard the references to it looking a nuke went off...if you saw it with your own eyes you'd know why. But I did go down there a few weeks ago and is looking alot cleaner and theres more life down there. Even reopened the library. Still nothing down there basically, just some cars, camps and the water tower.

[troy92850]

I just went there last weekend. There are about a couple of dozen camps now, plus another dozen or so lots with campers. It was very weird. It's mostly cleaned up, but just so barren compared to before..and yes it looks to be only really expensive camps now. One camp had a Jaguar parked in front, just to give you an idea.

[jatroc]

Depressing

[ChadHebert]

sad thing is it'll prob be for the rich when it gets rebuilt and the average cajun wont be welcome there.

[Ludeaux]

probably a bunch of texans or the lafayette bougeois will take it over

[in0culate]

I was there in july to see what happened I'm so sad now that is a really nice place to be..

[Ludeaux]

i am really going to miss the coonass riviera. You never miss something until it's gone, but vermillion and cameron parish will return.

[johnmc318]

My God.... So much lost, but not to worry, the people of Cameron Parish Louisiana have and continue to show the will to rebuild, If only the state of Louisiana felt the same way about another place besides New Orleans

[davewilson76]

R.I.P. Holly Beach. We had some great times there.

[troy92850]

So sad. I've been going there all my life and now it's gone. I wonder what it's going to be life when/if it gets rebuilt?

[darkgreenforest]

I made an entry about this on my blog and posted some pictures and links to satellite images there. Check it out if you're interested:

http://graniterocksound.blogsp­ot.com/2006/03/images-of-camer­on-parish-la-after.html#links