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Louisiana governor declares state of emergency over flooding

Looks bad. Y'all take care down there.

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My cousin took a picture as he was being rescued from his roof. The areas never had water get in to the houses before.



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looks awful. hope that our Louisiana members are ok.
 
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by my brothers house in Watson.

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and that's the Main Street in denham springs. Way before the peak of the flood.



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Greetings, roughdraft274. :2wave:

Is this flooding the result of a hurricane that occurred somewhere close-by recently? This looks worse than Katrina did! :shock:
 
Greetings, roughdraft274. :2wave:

Is this flooding the result of a hurricane that occurred somewhere close-by recently? This looks worse than Katrina did! :shock:

nope just flooding. amite river is flooding. a very slow moving storm has been dumping rain for days. new orleans i dont think is very bad. its mostly the area north of them. after katrina none of these areas flooded. completely different animal.
 
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by my brothers house in Watson.

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and that's the Main Street in denham springs. Way before the peak of the flood.



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I have a homeboy that lives in the road that passes by Story's Grocery in Watson. What's that road called?
 
looks awful. hope that our Louisiana members are ok.

I'm in south Texas. In cool.

My wife at her brother's house.
 

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I have a homeboy that lives in the road that passes by Story's Grocery in Watson. What's that road called?

Highway 16 but I think it's in denham springs not Watson. Right by my parents house. Some people call it petes hwy I think. All the highways have nicknames around here.


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Highway 16 but I think it's in denham springs not Watson. Right by my parents house. Some people call it petes hwy I think. All the highways have nicknames around here.


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Yeah, but I don't recall that road that turns by Story's Grocery and goes east. Anyway, he lives out that direction.
 
Yeah, but I don't recall that road that turns by Story's Grocery and goes east. Anyway, he lives out that direction.

Oh yea I guess that does go out to Watson.


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I'm in south Texas. In cool.

My wife at her brother's house.

i like the Jeep. sorry about the cleanup that they are going to have to do, though.
 
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i like the Jeep. sorry about the cleanup that they are going to have to do, though.

My clan is fortunate. No water in the houses, so far.

Wife: "I'm going to brother's and help".

Me: "take the ****ing jeep!"...lol
 
There is no such thing as global warming. You're right. He put his house in a creek bottom. I advised him 20 years ago that, someday, he was going to get flooded out.

A creek bottom?

Okay, just this once I'll retract my AGW rant - you called it on this one. That's precisely why I really, truly try to make sure that I'm not living on flatlands or slopes.

On a different note, I know what it means to have a house flooded out. I've got a house over in the Philippines, and it's about 30, maybe 40 feet above a wide flood plain...and then along came Typhoon Ondoy - it put about 4 feet inside our house. I'd bought the place assuming that we were high up enough to not have to worry...but Mother Nature sorta edjimicated me otherwise. Ruined a bunch of our furniture and ruined our car...but it didn't ruin our house, since most houses there (as in many other typhoon- or hurricane-prone places) are built out of steel rebar-reinforced concrete - they stand up to hurricane-force winds MUCH better than our stick-built houses do stateside. More than once I've seen the Filipinos here in America shake their heads in wonder when they see people building big, really nice stick-built houses in hurricane-prone zones. I figure they're thinking much the same about those homeowners as you were about your friend building a house in a creek bed.
 
How poorly constructed is the Louisiana infrastructure that typical rain causes 1/3 of the state to go through massive flooding?
 
How poorly constructed is the Louisiana infrastructure that typical rain causes 1/3 of the state to go through massive flooding?

I thought it was due to the low lying topography.
 
How poorly constructed is the Louisiana infrastructure that typical rain causes 1/3 of the state to go through massive flooding?

The rain might be typical, the flooding is not. You're entire question is stupid on its face.


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We had a flood of similar proportions here way back in 1985. Glad we have cell phones now.
 
It's all part of why I love Minnesota. Until winter. Winter sucks.

I happened to be in Minneapolis on business on July 23-24, 1987. I was meeting with some people at General Mills HQ.

25th Anniversay of the 1987 Twin Cities Superstorm: July 23-24, 1987

The heaviest rainfall ever officially recorded at a Twin Cities weather station fell between about 1800 hours CDT on 23 July and about 0200 hours CDT on 24 July 1987. During this eight hour interval, observers at the Twin Cities International airport station measured an even ten inches of rain (9.15 inches of which fell in a five hour period)

I left there thinking earthquakes aren't so bad.
 
It's all part of why I love Minnesota. Until winter. Winter sucks.

Winters here rock. Seldom rains, never snows, most days high temp 60 - 75 or so. Summers are bummers, though. What I need are two houses, one here and one in Minnesota.
 
How poorly constructed is the Louisiana infrastructure that typical rain causes 1/3 of the state to go through massive flooding?

This isn't typical rain, nor has it been a typical year. It's been a wet summer. Everything is saturated. The water has nothing to do but run off.
 
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