As Menacing Category 4 Laura Looms, Calcasieu Parish Residents Brace for Impact
By Andrea Gallo and Bryn Stole
The Advocate
The Leonards family had also decided to pick up stakes, leaving their family cattle ranch near Bell City in rural Calcasieu Parish for higher ground at a cousin’s house near Kinder.
Jamie Leonards and his sons had spent the last few days moving several hundred head of cattle — their own and neighbors’ — to a higher pasture on higher ground. Leonards noted that high surge can drown cattle or pull them out into the Gulf, and said they had managed to corral most of their herd.