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[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When God wants to give you a hint.

Hurricane Laura appears to have torn down a Confederate monument that a southern town recently voted to keep up. The deadly Category 4 storm blew into Lake Charles, Louisiana, overnight, where wind speeds reportedly reached 150 mph.

According to the Daily Advertiser, one casualty of the cyclone is a 115-year-old South’s Defenders Monument that overlooked one of the devastated town’s courthouses.

Only two weeks ago, city leaders voted 10-4 to keep the monument in place after 878 of the 945 Lake Charles residents who corresponded with city officials over the summer also agreed it should stay. Roughly 78,000 people call the southwest Louisiana town home.

The monument celebrates Confederate soldiers from the area who died during the Civil War.

“Can confirm, the confederate statue in Lake Charles that many were wondering about is gone, apparently a casualty of Hurricane Laura,” tweeted investigative reporter Andrea Gallo.

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.... And?

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And I think we ought to crowdsource a huge lampshade to go on that pedestal.