Lake Charles damage seen at first light after Laura passes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- While the Capital One building is the most recognizable on the Lake Charles skyline, it's a small part of the vast amount of damage left behind.
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>>> Kudos to "POST IT" notes, sticks to anything, withstands hurricane strength winds and flying shards of glass. at 0:54
Lol true dat man :)
Good job on approving that bldg design in a hurricane prone area.
No kidding..😐
Money Talks....
And how was it improved ??? By making it all glass ???
City dwellers boast about being educated yet how many cities in the US are located near a body of water? If climate change is as severe as the cult freaks proclaim, why do so many climate change freaks still live in mega cities?! Californians are especially ignorant.
Capital One apparently didn't spend their money wisely in 2007 after the big post Rita rebuild. They'll have a 3rd shot at this as the population of Louisiana continues to explode higher. Nasty inflation down there but almost all due to a total lack of building codes.
Don't give me that "There's was a hurricane coming" crap. I left you a sticky note on your desk!
I didn't get your email!
Oh yeah what happened to your phone? You would think that sticky notes were outdated
Windows blew out, but those are some strong freaking sticky notes on the pc screen at 0:55! #hurricaneproof
I noticed the same thing!
Brenda was smart, she stapled them to the screen.
@@massimookissed1023 Brenda so smart
See, many people will have fear in Lord Almighty now & many will walk in Heavenly ways by seeing this video of destruction....See, This is why Lord Jesus Christ said, unseen evil thief/evil kingdom power Comes to steal, kill & destroy human lives & hard work of their hands (Gs John 10v10; )....When we listen to Lord's teachings & walk/live in Lord's Heavenly Word, such evil kingdom power will stay away from us, Until Lord Comes soon to rule this earth (Gs John 10v29; 14v6; James 4v7; ) ...When we read, listen, & walk/live according to Lord's heavenly teaching, we are closer/CLOSER to our creator/God/Father in Heaven...In Lord Jesus Christ, We are closer in Father-children relationship with the creator of this universe (Gs John 14v6; 17; Matthew 6v10;)...When we are in closer relationship with our creator, such evil powers that Comes to destroy our lives will stay away from us, Until Lord's Coming to rule this earth.....Lord Jesus Christ, king of kings' is Coming soon to rule this earth with truth, peace, righteousness, & in spirit freedom(Rev1v7; 19v6;).....Evil kingdom/evil age of this earth perished/ended & has become the kingdom of our Lord & of His Christ/anointed ones/chosen ones/obedient ones & Lord will reign for ever & ever (Revelation 11v15; )...In Lord's soon rule, there will be no sin in human spirit, no curse, no wicked ones, no evil ones, no wars, no fights, no violence, no plague/COVID, no deadly storms to destroy human lives, no fear, no sufferings, no death, etc.(Revelation 21; Isaiah 66; )...Lord said, plague/COVID, violence, disasters, etc. are signs of evil kingdom perishing & sign of Christ's kingdom starting (Matthew 24; 24v33; Luke 21v11; )...So, those not in Lord, Turn to Lord's heavenly teaching now & walk in Lord's teaching, in order not to end up in hellfire (Matt 13v41; 25v41; Luke 16v24; Rev 21v8; )....Turn to Lord's teaching in order to live in righteousness dwelling Christ's kingdom (2 Peter 3v13; )...
That should be their slogan 😂
Windows blown out,
Post-Its still stuck on that monitor.
God bless America in is humble time 2020 and God be with those people in hurricane season and cov -19 and hope and pray keep them safe and well
2:23 worst brick morter joint work I have ever seen
Low key no bullshit
Sadness! I pray for LA and Texas
I feel sorry for whoever had their desk next to the Windows.
Just imagine if someone didn't realize that Laura was a Hurricane.
1:44. Damn look at that old Pizza hut, standing like a champ!
A 14 year old girl died from this storm. Pisses me off when dumbass people won't evacuate. I'm referring to her parents not her.
I see y'all getting a kick in the comments. But we are grateful down here. Thank God the security guard who spent the night in the building survived. Period!
as of 2024 the Capital Buliding in Lake Charles is gone!
Who moved my sticky notes?!
I pray that no one was in this building. This is sad to see. The devastation. God bless you
A security guard was in there during the storm. I stayed in my apartment too. God kept me calm and in charge of myself as walls and roofs flew off my building
0:43
There's a sound for a writer to describe in their post apocalyptical stories. The tinkling sound of metal blinds nearly, but not completely, torn from their bindings to clink together by the dozen, sounding less like wind chimes, and more like leaves rustling in a tree only with a metallic tinge.
I think you nailed it. Perfectly.
I feel sorry for the poor hard working that now have no job. Who is going to pay their bills, rent or be able to buy food for their families. Total devastation it looks like in the whole town. Thank you for updates.
From the right angle the building looks like a DNA chart!
God bless all those that were impacted 🙏🏼
The building from the outside gives me chills 💀💀
G R I M
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE INSIDE 😱😱😩😩
Wow! Hope no lives were lost
That would be the blessing
3 lives so far as noon 8/27/20
Don't think that RV's, glass-wall highrises, Aluminum buildings, and other obviously
glaring design faults, would be so prevalent in a hurricane zone. Lots of damage.
If you ever watched RnK all day on TH-cam that 1st building looks like something you’d see on one of their exploring adventures
It is still standing just broke some windows. Structure is good
A glass building, a hurricane prone region. When does the stupidity stop.
Or it could be a random tornado in YOUR hometown
Miami, Houston, NYC, and New Orleans shouldn't have glass buildings? Are you serious?
@@prototype434 are you one of those drama people
@@bdnewsome6868 Absolutely true. Live in Florida. But to use cheap material near a hurricane prone coastline, especially in the Gulf Coast with its warm water and record of cat 4 hurricanes, that's totally different. Somebody didn't spend a little time to apply a second or third order of thinking to that building site and material used.
That is one well ventilated building. Hope people are ok.
3m puts some magical adhesive on their sticky notes.
Business is good for the window company!!
Oh yes!!! Those 20 foot water wall surges are so scary lol . A bit dramatic
My goodness, that was one bad hurricane.
I noticed some brick wall are getting smashed. Thought that it wouldn't happen.
Glass for highrise buildings........great idea......
what would you suggest instead for windows?
what happened to the golden Nugget as it stayed open at lake charles?
Post It Note: We withheld Hurricane Laura!!🌊
That's what my window shades look like after the cats done
No more glass window buildings in the south.🦋✌🌎❤
Rest In Peace Laura 😢
So, the glass windows were ripped open?
@@thefuentes1987 You are dumb.....
antonio de la fuente Relax. They even showed on the precipitation radar that we weren't getting any rain so this is mainly a LA problem. And Ike did something like that to the buildings downtown. Not to that degree but I was there to remember it. So, that kinda of damage doesn't look to fake to me...I mean it's there. And you're really underestimating what a Cat 4 can do when it's going that fast. Remember Harvey? Wasn't that long ago. You're stating you're from Houston and you act like you've never experienced a hurricane before. You think these people are capable of drowning an entire city underwater? Good luck trying to tell people that cause last time I checked, the weather's only in god's control. Kinda tired of seeing people like you. I'm not even old enough to vote yet so I really don't care...
Stop with the bullshit. We weren't supposed to get a lot of rain if any through the reports. Look at a weather radar for once in your life.
I was flooded in Harvey jack
What I'm saying is this storm is not as predicted... research about weather controll before open your mouth.
@@thefuentes1987 wow you are paranoid and stupid. Nothing you said made sense.
@@thefuentes1987 Find something else to do today. People are dying. No one has time to make up fairy tales.
Those ARE STICKY notes!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
YESSSS.... The power of sticky notes!
Wow windows could totally ruin a buildings. The cost alone must be too much and then water damage.
yikes someone didn't spec the right glazing system for a hurricane
Designing a skyscraper with poor aerodynamics seems like an architectural mistake
What genius decided a totally glass walled building in a hurricane zone made sense. Idiocy no matter what the glass was rated.
I guess you haven't seen downtown Houston especially after ike in 2008
TX _713 Thank you. That's what I'm trying to say. Structurally this was a lot worse damaging than even Ike was. And we had no power for 2 weeks. The only thing that makes this storm look a lot weaker is that it went straight over in less than a day. Where Ike and Harvey took their sweet time...
How is it that the only thing standing at the salon is the glass door/window?
They imploded the Capitol One Tower this morning in Lake Charles. 23 story building now rubble
Large glass panels don’t stand up to hurricanes. That building is a total loss. They’ll condemn it and demolish it
I would have thought the reinforced structure was ok, no? demolition for high rises is super expensive
after all these experiences, wildfires, hurricane, etc., builders should know by now how to build houses not prone to these events. they need to be expensive. just design and build them smartly.
The mini blinds are shredded but the Post It notes held...
Who thought building a glass tower was a good idea in hurricane alley..???
Not to make light of the situation but you cannot ignore the "sticky-notes" at 0:54 STILL hanging on to the computer screen! Let's just pause and give a quiet shout out to Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States for inventing the adhesive!!!
And on the other hand can we please ALL agree that Venetian Blinds S U C K!!!!!!
That glass in the first building is not 'fit for purpose'!
It's purpose is not surviving a category 4 hurricane.
@@bremCZ The glass is dangerous and the company that glazed it shouldn't be in the business. The wrong glass has been installed.
@@howwerv9699 If the wrong glass has been installed that doesn't make it not fit for purpose.
If something isn't fit for purpose then it fails at meeting its intended use. If the glass isn't meant to be used this way then it hasn't failed at that.
Brem you’re clearly uneducated person looking for an argument for some reason. I could list of many reasons why it’s not fit for purpose.
@@howwerv9699 When behind the 8 ball, throw insults and hope they stick. Well done lad.
Why are overhead lines still a thing in 2020?
Next time they will learn not to make buildings out of glass holy gezzzz
Suzie Landry agree!
Atleast the worst is over. But hey the structure is still standing
Looks like a warzone.
Laura was just Rita's bigger sister.
Looks like the janitor is looking at some serious overtime.
i live here and the windows arre still broken till this day..:(
thats strange.every window looks like it represents the percentage of fbi people in lake charles who are living well/"above their'earnings"
So nobody knows yet how many people survived along the coast, or anything about the storm surge?
You realize it hasn't even been a day yet, right? Those things take time. They can't rush through it.
Okay happy so far no one hurt but seriously why would they put up a building of windows only in a hurricane zone. Is it cheaper to fix and less damage or what. I'm only asking as a building of windows only to me seems silly.
Wonder how many smart people won't be moving back there...
MoistGoat I myself am wandering the very same thing! My family lived in Port Arthur when Andrew came wrecking through!! And the aftermath is just god awful!! Especially have no electricity for weeks to months at a time!!!
at least stop building those shitty light steel and wood structures ffs
zero, because the smart people didn't live there already, lol, just kidding, but seriously my daughter and her husband are looking at land in that area to build their retirement home, i told em it's too close to the gulf for my taste, that was like 3 weeks ago, maybe now they will see I was right..... maybe
This entire area is going to be underwater by the end of the century
@Computer User The only God that exist in our universe is Time. But yeah sea level rise is a bitch. Expect massive population displacement in our lifetime.
2020 aint done yet
Whose here after the implosion of the Hertz Capital One Tower?
I am. Wrapped one of the biggest deals in my career in this building. Just came here for nostalgic purposes.
Anyone heard anything about Cameron lousiana?
Building Codes?
None!
It has to be that way lousiana is not Florida people wont build there with those regulations the state has to incentivise these businesses to come to the area or simply do without them.
My beautiful home... now destroyed
Where ironman,superman,spiderman etc?
😂😂😂😂😂
No storm surge?
Glass building nice😂
LOOKS JUST LIKE KENOSHA.
😔
That’s the IUN HQ!
Bomb exploded inside the Hurricane????
They should of tried to board up the windows
Poetic
Our tower...
This just shows how cheap America is really made🤔😥 2x4,plywood,sheet rock, and fake brick for looks
It's always been a facade. De Tocqueville's selections from Democracy and America in the early 1800s, wrote how Americans wanted to mimic aesthetics from Europe but did not want to pay the price. So stone columns became wooden columns painted to look like stone, stone facades dropped over wooden walls to give the appearance of wealth and power that their former nations (England, et all) had painstakingly built over generations. We've always been a nation of facades.
And now Europe enjoys such diverse areas as Paris. No facade there
Sam k Idk..my house was built in the 1890s & still has the original wood floors, several fixtures, fireplaces etc & the foundation is still strong. 130 yr old house still standing strong seems like good craftsmanship to me. Lots of good craftsmanship around.
@@eastsidebadger8416 you said it 1890 😆 big difference form now a days bs meterials
@@Already100 yup very true they didnt use crap pine wood back then now it's all pine and the plywood panels are particle board meaning compressed saw dust not even a real or solid timber just sawdust made into a sheet of plywood. Complete garbage.
Yikes
Don't expect anything like help from Trump you guys are on your own.
Lol liberal talk
Trump always sends aid.
Fords are so cheaply made that even powerful winds well dent the doors xD
Looks like a DNA pattern
Ok Cleaning Windows , Van Morrison comes too mind or how bout Nick Lowe , I love the Sound of Breaking Glass !
More fees on banking accounts .
The stupidy of building with glass and wood.
I was thinking the same thing!! This is a yearly event, some storms stronger than others. Don’t waste time and money on buildings that won’t withstand 150 winds. Now they want Government money to rebuild!!
@@bluejay3333 This is not a yearly event for Lake Charles!! Cat 4 hurricanes are very rare. Someday your town will suffer a catastrophe and you won't receive any sympathy from us.
@Jake, Didn’t mean any disrespect, just can’t understand why people are allowed to build buildings with a lot of glass that can’t withstand strong winds. I would think long skinny windows would be better than large plate glass windows. Believe me, I really feel sorry for all who have businesses and homes destroyed.
amendoa Cianara
Wow,,, looks like a cat 5 is not so bad,,, no flood and little house damage!
If it hadn't been for the Venetians and their blinds, it would be curtains for all of us (Badda-boom)! Visit my website: agnosticthinker.com.
Whats in your wallet
When you were a child your mom and dad should have read you the story of the 3 little pigs, but mom was told by women libbers that her desire to be a mother was sickening and had no time after her divorce to read you that story. Now you are older and without the story, you still make your home from twigs and sticks in a hurricane zone. Muhhahaha. Thank you builders for showing us on many levels, how stupid we are.
Couldn't happen to a better place, a lousy bank
They had festivals here when I was a kid too only good thing about this town are the holidays and festivals. The people I grew up with in this town sucked though. I was like 12 or something when we never had modern technology. There used to be a circuit city here too until it was sold out by some prick face. I remember the playground going down I10 bridge too.
First guys
Chinese glass
thats what they get for building glass towers
Our GOD is an awesome GOD!
Yes I agree God is awesome God!!! and keep faith on him a man
"un- survivable" storm surge. lol More like a wind damaging Hurricane then anything.
Do you know what a 15 feet Storm surge even is? That water is gonna stay there for days... You won't have fresh water in your house, no electricity... Nothing...
Better safe than sorry. Not to mention it’s still extremely bad damage to people’s livelihoods... don’t mock meteorologists who tried to warn people.
@@neonlight1214 Of course I do, but that's not what happened. We are talking about the "un-survivable" storm surge they strongly suggested. Waters don't recede that fast anyways, do you know what a storm surge is. lol
@@griffinslane Sure of course, I don't mock them. You're giving them a free pass. It equally effects the lively hoods of many when they're wrong too.
Crix except wind damage is to be expected during a hurricane regardless whereas storm surge can vary... 150 mph winds from a hurricane are obviously going to cause damage
Looks like BLM came through
without fire tho
@Brian McGillian go enjoy a nice warm glass of soy milk karen
See, many people will have fear in Lord Almighty now & many will walk in Heavenly ways by seeing this video of destruction....See, This is why Lord Jesus Christ said, unseen evil thief/evil kingdom power Comes to steal, kill & destroy human lives & hard work of their hands (Gs John 10v10; )....When we listen to Lord's teachings & walk/live in Lord's Heavenly Word, such evil kingdom power will stay away from us, Until Lord Comes soon to rule this earth (Gs John 10v29; 14v6; James 4v7; ) ...When we read, listen, & walk/live according to Lord's heavenly teaching, we are closer/CLOSER to our creator/God/Father in Heaven...In Lord Jesus Christ, We are closer in Father-children relationship with the creator of this universe (Gs John 14v6; 17; Matthew 6v10;)...When we are in closer relationship with our creator, such evil powers that Comes to destroy our lives will stay away from us, Until Lord's Coming to rule this earth.....Lord Jesus Christ, king of kings' is Coming soon to rule this earth with truth, peace, righteousness, & in spirit freedom(Rev1v7; 19v6;).....Evil kingdom/evil age of this earth perished/ended & has become the kingdom of our Lord & of His Christ/anointed ones/chosen ones/obedient ones & Lord will reign for ever & ever (Revelation 11v15; )...In Lord's soon rule, there will be no sin in human spirit, no curse, no wicked ones, no evil ones, no wars, no fights, no violence, no plague/COVID, no deadly storms to destroy human lives, no fear, no sufferings, no death, etc.(Revelation 21; Isaiah 66; )...Lord said, plague/COVID, violence, disasters, etc. are signs of evil kingdom perishing & sign of Christ's kingdom starting (Matthew 24; 24v33; Luke 21v11; )...So, those not in Lord, Turn to Lord's heavenly teaching now & walk in Lord's teaching, in order not to end up in hellfire (Matt 13v41; 25v41; Luke 16v24; Rev 21v8; )....Turn to Lord's teaching in order to live in righteousness dwelling Christ's kingdom (2 Peter 3v13; )...
bore off