Flagpole installation inLake Charles, LA

Flagpoles in Lake Charles

A petrochemical and port city on a lake thirty miles up from the Gulf, with casinos, a university and a rebuild still going on around all of it. We cover Lake Charles and the Calcasieu Parish area, including downtown and the Bord du Lac lakefront, the Charpentier Historic District, Ryan Street, McNeese State University, the Port of Lake Charles, the Westlake and Sulphur plant corridor, Chennault International Airport and the I-10 Calcasieu River bridge.

Wind here. Lake Charles sits in a southwest Louisiana, near-coastal area, which works out to roughly 130 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Laura came ashore at Cameron in August 2020 as a category four and went straight over this city, Delta followed six weeks behind it, and much of the work we are called out for in Lake Charles is still putting back what those two took. That history is why people here ask direct questions. The answer: about 130 mph is the adopted figure, we size to it, and we do not tell anyone a stock pole passes a code. Thirty miles of marsh between the lake and the Gulf shelters nothing, and the figure is roughly 145 down at Cameron and Holly Beach, so a Calcasieu Parish address gets looked up rather than assumed. The ground is soft coastal clay with the water table close under it, so the footing spreads well beyond what the height by itself suggests. The ship channel carries brackish water right into the city as well, so plated hardware is a false economy and we quote stainless on an anodized shaft.

Most of the people who call us from Lake Charles are petrochemical and industrial plants, port and marine operations, university and school buildings, hotels and casinos, hospitals, churches, veterans posts and parish facilities.