DragonRider Posted August 13, 2016 Share #1 Posted August 13, 2016 My son's home in Albany, La. His house is still dry but his shop/garage/in law suite is flooded, has about 6-7 inches of water in it. They have had over 22 inches of rain in 2 days and no let up. Water has started to recede, but the rain is still falling, and expected to continue for a few more days. So glad they are safe, but the boat is ready to go if need be, all the roads and highways are flooded and impassable. The National Guard has been making water rescues all over his area, they saw his boat ready to go and haven't stopped to check on them. Praying they don't have to launch their life boat. Praying for all those affected by this, the national weather service is calling this a 500 year storm, its the most rain that has ever fallen in that area, and that includes hurricanes, they didn't have this much water after last years storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowpuc Posted August 13, 2016 Share #2 Posted August 13, 2016 PRAYERS UP for your Son, his family and ALL those affected by this crisis Lewis!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venture n Dixie Posted August 13, 2016 Share #3 Posted August 13, 2016 If it's doable cars should be jacked up and put on blocks. Computers put in highest possible place. Went through a 100 yr flood at work in 2003 and lost several cars, lot of computers we thought were high enough. When water reached my bellybutton we realised it was too little too late and had to evacuate. Leave if the house could get washed away. Sounds obvious but all employees were frantically trying to save stuff and we were fortunate we didn't loose THEM! Happened so fast we were unprepared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAWildKat Posted August 14, 2016 Share #4 Posted August 14, 2016 My prayers everyone over there is safe. I have family near Baton Rouge myself, so I'm hoping all is well with them too. Sent from my SM-T350 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yammer Dan Posted August 14, 2016 Share #5 Posted August 14, 2016 I've had enough of this water!! Maybe we ought to build a big boat!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djh3 Posted August 14, 2016 Share #6 Posted August 14, 2016 I hope all works out for him. I'm tellin you all. The man up stairs has just about had it. All this mega heat everywhere here. The impending dumba$$ election with no choice and now you got frogs looking for life rafts. It sure could be a warning folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sho_greg Posted August 15, 2016 Share #7 Posted August 15, 2016 I hope all works out for him. I'm tellin you all. The man up stairs has just about had it. All this mega heat everywhere here. The impending dumba$$ election with no choice and now you got frogs looking for life rafts. It sure could be a warning folks. Amen... scary.. Got flooding, got earthquakes, got worst storms, got election, got isis, got Russia, got Isreal--- what got did I miss?? oh yeah got cant tell season from season.. Scary... or wonderful... Guess only you know the answer to that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowpuc Posted August 15, 2016 Share #8 Posted August 15, 2016 Amen... scary.. Got flooding, got earthquakes, got worst storms, got election, got isis, got Russia, got Isreal--- what got did I miss?? oh yeah got cant tell season from season.. Scary... or wonderful... Guess only you know the answer to that.. good stuff,,, ,, got a pretty good touch of "as in the days of Noah",, got some "men shall be lovers of they ownselves" goin on,, may have a fair amount of unthankfulness happenin,,,, got wars and rumors of wars if ya watch a little news,,,, got a fair about of boasting.. ,, hopefully = "when the Trump shall sound" is meant literally and not some kind of a gender reference.. Stay on the back wheel and keep lookin up!! Puc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snyper316 Posted August 16, 2016 Share #9 Posted August 16, 2016 Has anyone got update on the flood... Prayers up seen the news last night about 100yr floods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonRider Posted August 17, 2016 Author Share #10 Posted August 17, 2016 They are now calling it a 1000 year flood event, and I tend to agree. I lived in S. La. for 51 years and never saw flooding like this until Katrina, of course by that time I was already living in Ga. for 5 years, but my heart is still in La. The waters have receded in some places but other towns south are starting to feel the affects of all that flood water, it all empties into one lake and that lake has no levies to protect the people living south of that lake. Laplace, La. where we used to live is very close to that lake so they are already seeing food shortages at the stores. Its going to take a long time to recover from all that water. Laplace had flooding earlier this year and here it comes again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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