"Francine's impact on the city turned out to be relatively minor, a summer storm like locals are used to. But had the hurricane shifted a bit west, it could have collided with a place still recovering from the last storms..."
"Lake Charles has been very, very unlucky. The city's only skyscraper, the Capital One Tower, symbolizes Lake Charles's unfortunate fate as a city that has embraced Louisiana's oil and gas industry..."
"According to the US Energy Information Administration, today Louisiana provides 10% of the country's marketed natural gas production and 61% of the US's natural gas exports..."
"Through oil busts and booms, the tower stood like a beacon for the town's success in the energy industry, a bulwark against climate change's doomsayers even as the climate has warmed and the hurricanes barreling in from the Gulf have got stronger."
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