IDA'S WRATH : 'I've survived many hurricanes, including Katrina, but nothing compares to this.' Houma residents are left reeling from Ida's wrath after 120mph winds reduce homes, businesses and even a bowling alley to a pile of rubble

For the city of Houma, Louisiana, the devastation from Hurricane Ida is apocalyptic.

Located 60 miles southwest of New Orleans, the community has seen major storms before, but never has the suffering been so great.

A local bowling alley smashed to pieces, a supermarket almost blown apart, a clothing store destroyed, homes wrecked, business after business battered to the point of being unrecognizable.

Everywhere, there are scenes that look like they have been eerily staged for a disaster movie. But the damage is real, and now serving as a backdrop to residents' survival stories.

Punishing winds of more than 120 mph for at least four hours - with gusts up to 150 mph - have left every home in the 100,000-population city damaged in some way.

Around one in 10 buildings have had their roof torn off or partially destroyed - and eight out of ten need some roof work, local fire chief Eddie Berthelot told DailyMail.com.

Incredibly, there has been no loss of life reported so far in the city. 'And that is truly a miracle,' added Berthelot.

The most bizarre spectacle is Bowl South in east Houma, formerly a 27,000 sq ft bowling alley complex with 24 lanes and a loyal local following.

Ida treated it with contempt. She blew in the windows, then blasted out the huge brick wall at the back of the building and ripped off the steel roof.

As dawn broke on Monday just hours after the hurricane continued her path north, the business's surreal fate was revealed.

Through the smashed windows, bowling balls are still in place. Chairs and tables keel at crazy angles. Bowling shoes remain tucked under one of the counters. The bowling lanes are still there.

But the outer layer of the roof is completely missing and the second layer is half gone - which means the full force of Ida's rains saturated the interior. Roof insulation covers the floor, creating a deep, sodden carpet with pools of water.

Pro-shop manager Larry Grabert, 40, stood amidst the devastation. 'It's insane,' he said.

'This place is like my second home, has been since the 1990s. It's survived all the other storms, but had no answer for this one.'

He continued: 'Somebody made a TikTok video as they passed here Sunday night, so I saw the whole inside and I could see part of the roof was missing.

'I had to stew since 11:30 last night waiting for sun-up to come for me to see it for myself.

'It was way worse than I was expecting. It is just devastating. I'd say the place is a total loss. It looks so weird. All the stuff is here, but soaking wet and blown apart. That back wall was brick, but it didn't stand a chance.'

East Houma was battered harder than the rest of the city. Close to Bowl South, at the Caillou Plaza, the Save a Lot supermarket revealed a similarly bizarre spectacle.

The front was completely blown out, metal roofing was hanging down – and inside peppers, melons and other fresh produce were still on display, seemingly untouched by the ferocious winds.

Next door, clothing store Citi Trends provided the same scene, albeit with different goods. Outside, sheets of glass littered the sidewalk. Inside the ceiling had vanished, while piles of women's tops, bras and other clothing somehow stayed in place.

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We remember them in our prayers..

God Will send a helper

I can't even feel pity for them because We've been experiencing our own hurricane more powerful than IDA over here in Nigeria. Very deadly hurricane that has caused the damage of properties and loss of thousands of lives.

Hurricane Buhari.

Righteousness89 food has landed

Righteousness2 food has landed. Time to use Christianity's greatest tool.. FEAR

God loves us in this country. We do not have extreme weather conditions. Our major problem is human/leadership disaster.

BTW, Some smart Nigerian businessmen are going to cash out in the coming months. Containers of spare parts, electronics, etc... loading

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DropsMic:
Righteousness2 food has landed time to use Christianity's greatest tool.. FEAR

righteousness still dey sleep..

Imagine something like this happening in Nigeria and the years it will take us to rebuild back...

Why do they have so many wooded structures when concrete and metal option is there.

It's a massive lost.

I have realized that when something bad happens in US, everybody "go lock up". As if people in America don't feel pain. Don't deserve help or aid. Everybody just assumes "it's America, they can handle it".

I expect other countries to show support just like America has helped countries around world.

Make dem come naija come experience small romance with bandit or iswap .... Walahi trouble go reach all the country for this world na just matter of time

May God be with the people of Louisiana in all these.
God save America.
God save Nigeria.
God save the world �.

We Rise.

If u had lived in the era of the dark ages or crusade wars, Biafra war, world war 1 etc etc, what tune would u have been singing?

Righteousness2:
Terrifying Devastations in the Nations.
Each more Unusual, Destructive and Unprecedented than the Last.

These Devastating Events are not "accidents" nor are they Merely " Natural Cycle of things"

The World is Enduring events designed to bring about the End of the age. These Events are Giving signs of what is Coming and Warning us to Repent and Run into the Saving Hands of JESUS Christ..

Look all around folks! The Signs and Evidence are so Strong. JESUS IS COMING!!

The wonderful part of this natural disasters is that after the hurricane only one person died, but if na 9ja bicycle go hit somebody for road and 50people go die

This looks like a bomb explosion.
If things like this happens somewhere in Africa, etutu, rituals will done every year to appease the gods

hurricane a regular thing out there. if this where to be somewhere in the heart of Africa OYO on-your-own.

for real their government is already prepared for this and it's people. it remains a natural occurrence it can't control but is always ready to manage and control the aftermath.

Thank God it's not Katherine

The storm will subside soon, y'all will bounce back and rebuild.... The Lord is with y'all...

DropsMic:
Righteousness2 food has landed time to use Christianity's greatest tool.. FEAR

Na him still get this monicker, just like holiness

Come to nigeria and start a new life

Righteousness2:
Terrifying Devastations in the Nations.
Each more Unusual, Destructive and Unprecedented than the Last.

These Devastating Events are not "accidents" nor are they Merely " Natural Cycle of things"

The World is Enduring events designed to bring about the End of the age. These Events are Giving signs of what is Coming and


Warning us to Repent and Run into the Saving Hands of JESUS Christ..

Look all around folks! The Signs and Evidence are so Strong. JESUS IS COMING!!

GOSPEL ACCORDING TO FEAR IS NOT WORTH PREACHING....

DropsMic:
Righteousness2 food has landed time to use Christianity's greatest tool.. FEAR

He is misguided. Christianity greatest tool is not fear. Fear has no place in God. Anyone who fears doesn't trust God or has faith in him.

What is Christianity greatest tool? LOVE

John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him, should not perish but have everlasting life

John 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.


Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Powersurge:
It's a massive lost.

I have realized that when something bad happens in US, everybody "go lock up". As if people in America don't feel pain. Don't deserve help or aid. Everybody just assumes "it's America, they can handle it".

I expect other countries to show support just like America has helped countries around world.

Exactly what I was thinking
Yet some folks think they don't deserve to be world power
Just watch how everything will be fixed in record time without external help

Difficult to imagine what those affected are going through.

Most US houses are built with wood/ plywood.

They don't stand up to fire or hurricane as much as houses built with cement blocks & concrete.

US should rethink it's house building approach especially for areas prone to violent weather events.

Righteousness2:
Terrifying Devastations in the Nations.
Each more Unusual, Destructive and Unprecedented than the Last.

These Devastating Events are not "accidents" nor are they Merely " Natural Cycle of things"

The World is Enduring events designed to bring about the End of the age. These Events are Giving signs of what is Coming and Warning us to Repent and Run into the Saving Hands of JESUS Christ..

Look all around folks! The Signs and Evidence are so Strong. JESUS IS COMING!!

The day I will catch your for corner, enough beating to reset your brains. Stop typing or attributing all things to your endtime physcho.