Capital One Tower in Lake Charles, LA is Demolished

It was Hurricane Laura that did the damage to this tower. I know, because I walked through the plaza where the tower was located immediately following Hurricane Laura in 2020. I had personally gone over there to help with the cleanup following the storm.

During that effort, I had a chance encounter with a sitting US Representative from Louisiana's 6th district, U.S. Rep. Garret Graves. He and I spent a full day working on cleaning up an elderly woman's property and having the experience that I do in politics, I asked him if he had ever run for Congress before and that's when he informed me who he was. Up until that point in time, he hadn't disclosed that information to anyone. Garret is stepping down from that position at the end of this term. That's unfortunate for Louisiana's 6th district because that man is a representative that anyone would be lucky to have.

When I first got into town in Lake Charles, prior to all of that, I was shocked to see the extent of the damage that had been caused by Hurricane Laura. The mainstream media had downplayed that storm and the severity of a category 4 storm, but what people were not being informed about in regard to that storm was that if the sustained winds had been just 7 mph stronger it would have been a category 5 storm.

There is a really good video out there somewhere of when the storm came through. There were several guys in the parking garage at the Capital One Tower filming as the storm was hitting the Tower and there was glass from all of the Tower's windows raining down around them everywhere. While watching that video I personally saw very odd things happening that didn't really seem normal for a hurricane, and I've been through several of them in my lifetime.

While I was over there for the cleanup I also noticed what appeared to be facebook deliberately causing the cleanup efforts to be much more difficult than they should have been. I can't prove that this was intentional, but I also happen to be a software developer who is well versed in web design and in social media, and it looked deliberate to me, and it also looked like it had to be people from facebook's upper management who were responsible for it.

I reached out to several people regarding all of that but couldn't convince anyone to listen to what I was trying to explain to them. To this day, I am still convinced that facebook staff was involved in intentionally making life harder for the storm victims. I know what I saw, I just wish people would have listened to what I was trying to tell them, and show them.

To me, what I saw happen was repulsive and it was infuriating at the same time.