The Informer: Record cold troubled Lake Charles for days in 1985 - American Press

The Informer: Record cold troubled Lake Charles for days in 1985 - American Press

Record-shattering cold temperatures caused a critical water shortage, a brief power outage and dozens of frozen pipes in Southwest Louisiana during the winter of 1985. “If we had a major problem such as a fire, we wouldn’t have enough water to fight it,” Ben Hockey of the Greater Lake Charles Water Co. told the Lake Charles American Press for its Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1985, edition. He said the storage tank at Center Street east was empty and the ta…