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Rescuers find more survivors, more damage
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-27 08:22
CREOLE, La. - Hurricane Rita's path of devastation along the Texas-Louisiana
coast became shockingly clear Monday, as rescuers pulled stranded bayou
residents out on skiffs and Army helicopters searched for thousands of cattle
feared drowned. AP reported.
Damaged structures are shown in the aftermath
of Hurricane Rita Monday, Sept. 26, 2005 in Cameron, La. An estimated 80
percent of the buildings in the town of Cameron, population 1,900, were
leveled. [AP] | Crews struggled to clean up the
tangle of smashed homes and downed trees. The hurricane slammed low-lying
fishing villages, shrimping ports and ranches with water up to 9 feet deep.
Seawater pushed as far as 20 miles inland, drowning acres of rice, sugarcane
fields and pasture.
In coastal Terrebonne Parish, the count of severely damaged or destroyed
homes stood at nearly 9,900. An estimated 80 percent of the buildings in the
town of Cameron, population 1,900, were leveled. Farther inland, half of Creole,
population 1,500, was left in splinters.
"I would use the word destroyed," Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore said of
Cameron. "Cameron and Creole have been destroyed except for the courthouse,
which was built on stilts on higher ground. Most of the houses and public
buildings no longer exist or are even in the same location that they were."
The death toll from the second devastating hurricane in a month rose to seven
with the discovery in a Beaumont, Texas, apartment of five people — a man, a
woman and three children — who apparently were killed by carbon monoxide from a
generator they were running indoors after Rita knocked out the electricity.
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