Beauxart Gardens suffered some damage to mobile homes, aluminum roofs, garages, carports, fences and trees. While most of spurlock road on each side of HWY 69 has extreme damage to powerlines, most fared pretty well in Beauxart Gardens, as far as homes are concerned. In fact, as we have moved into Nederland, most of the city probably came out similar to Rita. Some have damage, others do not. It seems there were more misses but the homes that were affected, were hit very hard.
The Cheverolet Filling Station on Nederland Ave and HWY 69 is demolished, 'The Old Easy Mart.' The RV Park on the 69 end of Avenue H has a great deal of destruction. Also on that end of AVE H there is a house with its garage caved in. Fellowship Baptist Church has most of its front side of the old building, ripped away. Bricks are everywhere. We will continue reporting on Nederland and the rest of the Mid and South County areas in the coming hours.
Our press time is approaching so we are going to have to focus on that for the next few hours.
Mike Tobias, Cody Pastorella/Port Arthur News
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Mike, Cody - down to the exact area - thank you! That's my 'hood' :) Heard from everyone, including "lost boy/Lone Ranger" at 6:08p Sunday. Voice on cell - oh yeah, I cried. Hard. He LOL, sympathetically. He thought Ike was a bad-arse, ha! Wait til I get a boot up his butt!!?
He says that Rita took out most of the trees on the Family land - so really, there was nothing left to hurt it. He 'hurricane proofed it.'
Unbeknownst to me, he had a nephew w/ him who needed extra insulin - in ORANGE. Sent text that SE J.Co. airport had med supplies, but he already beat a path over to NW corner of Orange - no flooding there @ the lil sis' house. She was still in Tyler w/ no power - her hubby's truck is floating in the parking lot of H-Hobby - so she has to go to DFW to pick him up- he MIGHT be able to get out of NV by Wed. :(
Don't know how to thank you for zeroing in on this area. Oil Mart being blown away & much more, wow -there are other family members in that area - from B.G. Rd. to Lumberton. After Rita, 1 was 'misplaced' for 8 weeks. Sounds like his home is GONE - from your descriptions.
Clearly, I was hysterical when leaving comment. Then Ike headed this way. Several were injured at the Indy Motor SWay/MotoGP - when a 90mph+ wind gust lifted up a HUGE tent (infield of 2.5 mile trackS) - people now in Meth. Hosp. Where I live, was literally in between the 31,000 remaining power outages S & major flooding N.
Countin' Blessin's!! Thank you so much. Will stay w/ ya. How many WEEKS until things are back to normal, hmmm. I'm comin' down for a visit! Was planning a trip Oct. 3. Probably not a good time, yet.
xxo, jill in Indy
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