An evacuee describes what it’s like to flee Hurricane Laura fifteen years after she escaped another devastating storm.
TORONTO -- In the days leading up to Hurricane Laura’s arrival on the U.S. Gulf Coast, Becky Clements and her family made the heartbreaking decision to leave their home and most of their belongings and flee.
“As soon as we heard it was going to be about a [Category] 2, once it was going to be at least two or three, we were going to leave,” she told CTV’s Your Morning on Thursday. “What we brought with us was basically clothes and food,” she said. “You can’t pack up your whole house. I would have loved to have packed up photo albums and important things that are sentimental to us, but you just can’t do that. You’re trying to get out of the way of the storm.”In 2005, she and her children evacuated Lake Charles ahead of Hurricane Rita – the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded.
That’s why Clements said they knew they were going to leave as soon as it was clear Hurricane Laura was shaping up to be much worse than Rita.
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