Flooding in Louisiana

[Complete Turf Care]

I'm surprised no one has started a thread here about the Louisiana flooding.

I'm pretty much in the middle of it. We had about 23" in about 30 hours on Friday and Saturday. I am VERY fortunate that none of my home or shop or equipment had any water damage.

But, many others are not so lucky. One report said that 76% of all homes in Livingston Parish have water damage. That is about 100 miles east of where I live.

There are hundreds of pictures and videos on Facebook about all kinds of stories of rescues and heros. Some water is still rising as it moves down the rivers towards the Gulf Of Mexico.

Schools are still closed, Interstate 10 is still closed......I could go on and on.....

The best thing about all this is how so many people have helped their neighbors through this.

 

[Avondale]

I saw the news about all the damage from the flooding as well as the droughts that aide the wild fires out west. Incredible what Mother Nature can do.

 

[PILOON]

And now all our premiums will go up to cover the insurance cos losses.
After all investors must have their dividends.

 

[Industrial Toys]

My guess is, many don't have any insurance.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Prayers sent, floods are hard to deal with nothing you can do but watch your home soak or float. Ed

 

[Complete Turf Care]

I would agree that most people probably don't have flood insurance, because they are not in flood zones. This is a 500 year event, which means you could expect this to happen once every 500 years.

Here is an article that pretty much sums up what I have experienced over the past few days.

The Flood Of 216: Southeast Louisiana And The Consequences Of Real Community

 

[coldsteelva]

Millions in losses when these are available.

Resident uses AquaDam to protect home from floodwaters | khou.com

Texas Man Uses Massive Inflatable Dam to Save House

 

[MF283]

It is sad to see, i for one wouldn't live in an area where there is the possibility for that, i know that it may be a hard thing for some, it's a given & LA or someone really needs to sort this thing out.
I'm not trying to sound like i don't care, we were hit with a flood in 2010 here in mid TN, totally shocked at what happened around us.

Ronnie

 

[dmccarty]

I'm surprised no one has started a thread here about the Louisiana flooding.
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The best thing about all this is how so many people have helped their neighbors through this.

I have been looking for in depth news on the flooding and there just is not much. Just a few paragraphs or a page here and there for coverage. I walk by the break rooms that have TV and the news is about the latest gossip nonsense or the Olympics. Surely don't want non stop coverage but I just have not seen much at all.

After Floyd flooded eastern NC with a 500 year flood event I noticed that not much was on the national news either. Local news had coverage but national news, not so much.

The best thing will be neighbors helping neighbors. It amazed me when I saw how many people came out to help cleanup. Seem it several times now too so it was not a one off thing either. The Federal response was pretty pathetic as far as I saw...

Later,
Dan

 

[mjarrels]

FEMA said they will respond within two weeks. Jay Johnson did a flyover and I expect obama will do a flyover with af1.

mark