Photo gallery: Hurricane Laura — then and now
Published 2:25 pm Friday, August 27, 2021
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Captiol One Tower-2020
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Capitol One Tower has remained vacated since Hurricane Laura made landfall in Southwest Louisiana in 2020. (Rick Hickman / American Press Archives)
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Sabine Refuge-2020
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Sabine Refuge-2021
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Cameron home-2020
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Cameron home-2021
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Civic Center-2020
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Civic Center-2021
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McNeese baseball-2020
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McNeese baseball-2021
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Tuten Park-2020
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Tuten Park-2021
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Golden Corral-2020
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Golden Corral-2021
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Creole intersection-2020
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Creole intersection-2021
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Creole home-2020
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Crole home-2021
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Laura’s Category 4 winds wreaking havoc on Southwest Louisiana. Here is a gallery of American Press photos showing devastation immediately after the Aug. 27, 2020, storm hit the region and what those structures look like today.
Photos were taken by American Press photographers Rick Hickman and Kirk Meche.