CAMERON, La. – Newly built-to-code houses that have already survived one hurricane will be featured in this year’s Cameron Parish Tour of Hurricane-resistant Homes.

The tour will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, May 17.

Houses on the tour were built to replace houses destroyed when Hurricane Rita ravaged southwest Louisiana in 2005. Hurricane Ike slammed in to the Gulf in 2007, resulting in a surge as high, or higher, than the surge brought on by Hurricane Rita.

Dave and Debbie Savoie's house features an elevator paid for by the the Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities. The Savoie's son, Jeremy, is confined to a wheelchair. Don and Nena Menard’s house was on a slab when Hurricane Ike hit. The hurricane pushed about 32 inches of water inside the house. Once the floodwaters subsided, the Menards had the house elevated.

Nicky and Stephanie Rodrigue's house is a 2,500-square-foot structure that sits on pilings made of Sonotube concrete forms wrapped with fiber cement siding for decoration. Break-away walls and foundation flood vents are in the garage. Cecil and Leslie Clark attended home buyer education classes held at the LSU AgCenter’s Calcasieu Parish office. Their new house was built by workers with Habitat for Humanity.