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Video Description
News crew almost get hit by power utility line and pole as it came crashing down right behind them on road in Hurricane Francine.
Additional footage of the hurricane damage as a out building is picked up and thrown and destroyed. People trying to rescue their boat from floating away in the Hurricane Eye Wall. Numerous trees and power-lines and storm surge/ flooding footage around and damage around Theriot, LA.
Shot Description
00:00 - A truck used by the news crew for Fox Weather passed a power / light poll and it started to come down just as they passed under it and crashed behind them as they kept driving and the pole bounces and kicks up a water spray showing the intense winds.
If this would have happened 2 seconds earlier, the power line would have been caught on the roof rack of their vehicle and ripped it off or sliced through the front part of the passenger compartment of their truck.
00:07 - 50% slowed down version of the first clip of the pole barely missing the news crew.
00:20 - Wider clip from the dash camera of the power pole coming down.
00:27 - High Winds send building flying in the air from Hurricane Francine.
00:38 - Trailer laying out in field destroyed from wind.
00:47 - Vehicles flooded out from storm surge.
00:54 - Father and son try and secure there boat from floating away during eyewall of hurricane
01:12 - Roof on home damage from high winds
01:23 - Tree down on power lines
01:32 - Power lines almost ready to fall across roadway with high winds
01:46 - Door of building swaying while birdhouse gets thrown to the ground from the wind
01:55 - (2 Clips) Extremely high winds and waves
02:19 - Power poles leaning about to collapse
02:28 - Sunset over Bayou DuLarge, LA with the storm surge surrounding all the homes
SID: Michael Gordon
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