Hurricane Laura: damage and recovery in Lincoln Parish

Ruston stayed strong, but this tree behind JACO Federal Credit Union on Vienna Street failed to remain upright during the heavy winds brought by Hurricane Laura on Thursday.

A tree fell on top of this house in the 500 block of Homer Street during Hurricane Laura’s strike on Ruston.

The Relax Inn on North Trenton Street lost part of its roof Thursday from the pounding winds of Hurricane Laura.

Emergency personnel broke out chain saws to remove this tree that blocked northbound lanes of North Trenton Street near Kentucky Avenue as Hurricane Laura roared across Ruston.

Heavy rains flooded the Hole In One driving range on Old Grambling Road Thursday.

This powerline just off of Monroe Street in Ruston was snapped by Laura’s high winds. Article Image Alt Text

East California Avenue near the intersection with Sparta Street Article Image Alt Text

500 block of Main Street in Grambling

A house on Sparta Street

The fire station on Highway 3072

Crews working on downed power lines and trees on Highway 167 North.

Work trucks tending to downed power lines on East Arizona Avenue

Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Grambling

Gov. John Bel Edwards boards a helicopter to survey the damage in Ruston.

Gov. John Bel Edwards' helicopter entourage surveying the damage over Ruston

Gov. John Bel Edwards held a press conference Friday afternoon at the Ruston Regional Airport after touring the area by air.

Part of the line to get gas at the Shell on Farmerville Highway Friday

The line at for gas at the Chevron on Tech Drive Friday

The Louisiana National Guard arrived at the Ruston Exhibition Center on Friday morning with cases of water and boxes of pre-packaged meals. Pictured are guardsmen loading water and boxes of food into cars.

National Guardsmen use military equipment at the North Louisiana Exhibition Center Sunday to remove pallets of water brought in for parish residents

Cars lined up at the Expo Center to reeive food boxes and cases of water handed out by the Louisiana National Guard.

National Guardsmen distributing food and water to parish residents at the Expo Center Sunday

Cedar Creek students working to clear downed trees on a teacher's property

Brooks Joiner's Homer Street bedroom

Ernie Stevens' East Colorado Avenue dining room

Margaret Richardson's house on Richardson Hill Road

Pictured are just a few of the sights captured in the wake of Hurricane Laura in Lincoln Parish. Laura made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday night and decimated southwest Louisiana before heading inland, striking Lincoln Parish as a Category 1 hurricane Thursday morning before downgrading into a tropical storm in Arkansas.

Leader photos by T. Scott Boatright, Nancy Bergeron, Nate Nasworthy, Caleb Daniel, Crystal Richard, Marc Richard or submitted photos.

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