While Arabi Sling and Rigging’s building was structurally sound, the interior was ruined and little, if anything, was salvageable.
On Tuesday, August 23 Te National Hurricane Center
This is the line to get into Wal-Mart a few days after Katrina
A deep layer of mud and debris was left after the storm.
& Rigging moving forward and continuing to diversify the offerings it provided to its clientele. When Louis H. Flores Jr. died in June of 2001, his
wife Maxine and his children who had originally helped out in the old garage stepped forward to assume the reins of the company. Today, Louis’ son Louis H. Flores III is the company’s President, his daughter Nancy Guy is the Vice President and another daughter Holly Donnelly is the company’s Secretary. Having kept their family company moving forward into
the new millennium, the folks at Arabi Sling & Rigging had every reason to feel proud and to be optimistic about the future. But, like most of their neighbors, they didn’t know how badly they’d need both those personality traits in the days ahead of them. While residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are used to enduring the arrival of hurricane season, 2005 proved to be far more challenging than anyone could ever imagine.
in Miami, Florida reported a tropical storm system. Te next day the storm’s winds reached 40 miles an hour and it was given the name Katrina. By Tursday, it had nearly doubled its velocity and Katrina was a classified a hurricane. After coming ashore on the southeastern coast of Florida, the storm moved into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico where it picked up strength. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco declared a state of emergency. By the early morning of Saturday, August 27 Katrina had become a Category 3 hurricane with winds that reached 115 miles an hour. “It was certainly very strong and also very large,” remembers Chris Landsea, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who flew into the hurricane to take readings of the storm. “When we were flying into it Saturday, its circulation covered the entire Gulf of Mexico.”
While many folks packed and left immediately, many others stayed behind. Some refused to leave for economic reasons, some were stranded without means of transportation to leave, while others chose to stay with their homes and possessions - feeling the threat of damage or loss to their property was worse than the threat of harm to themselves. Nancy Guy and her family evacuated to Lake Charles. When they left they had no idea that they’d be gone for months on end, and a second storm – Hurricane Rita –
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