"Audrey" - Toll Rises In Wake Of Gulf Hurricane
"Audrey" - Toll Rises In Wake Of Gulf Hurricane
On the spot films show hurricane Audrey s devastating onslaught. The combination of hurricane winds and twenty-foot tidal waves took a toll that may reach four hundred lives, with thousands homeless. The season s first hurricane lashes the coast of South-West Louisiana. Hurricane Audrey spawned in the Gulf of New Mexico sweeps in at Cambrian Parish with tremendous winds and rain. An estimated 350 people lost their life s swep by the back lash of the Gulf of Mexico by title waves. Camerian was hardest hit, wit millions of dollars of property damage. But it also cut a path of destruction also inland and on into Canada. Establishing shot - On the beach by the Gulf of Mexico the wind is blowing bending trees almost to the point of breaking. MS - Boats tied up at the pier are bouncing all over the place. CUS - The wind is blowing so hard that this one tree is pinned to the ground by its force. MS - Flooded streets a 1956 Mercury is driving through the water. MCUS - A telephone pole is blown over. MCUS - A motel completely destroyed all you see is some wood standing. MCUS - Debris is blowing down the street, a small garbage can. MS - A family of four and a dog standing on their front porch. MCUS - Man and a woman walking down the street, he s trying to get out of a parking lot by climbing over a guard rail and is holding on to her hand. MS - A window is blown out and the blinds are flapping all over, a smashed out rear window of a car and a man is checking it out. Aerial shot - Debris all over the place, destroyed houses, flooded streets and a water tower blown over landing on a car and partially damaging the other car that s parked next to it. MS - A boat that s been blown over on so property. MCUS - A destroyed bridge. CUS - A cow trapped in mud that half way up his side. MCUS - Two dead animals. MS - A man looking at his dead horse lying in a flooded pasture. CUS - More destruction, military loading supplies on a flat bed truck. Aerial shot - Flooded streets and badly damaged houses. MCUS - Lake Charles High School and people who took refuge there, volunteer handing out clothing. CUS - Children sitting on the floor playing, a little baby getting dressed, a little older baby sucking his bottle and looking at his hand.