Photo gallery: Hurricane Laura — then and now
Published 2:25 pm Friday, August 27, 2021
Captiol One Tower-2020
Capitol One Tower has remained vacated since Hurricane Laura made landfall in Southwest Louisiana in 2020. (Rick Hickman / American Press Archives)
Sabine Refuge-2020
Sabine Refuge-2021
Cameron home-2020
Cameron home-2021
Civic Center-2020
Civic Center-2021
McNeese baseball-2020
McNeese baseball-2021
Tuten Park-2020
Tuten Park-2021
Golden Corral-2020
Golden Corral-2021
Creole intersection-2020
Creole intersection-2021
Creole home-2020
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.
