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Hey Jolly, Flood in Louisiana?
Topic Started: Aug 13 2016, 03:12 PM (1,036 Views)
Axtremus
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Hey Jolly, saw report of severe flooding in the southern parts of Louisiana. How are you folks holding up?
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TomK
HOLY CARP!!!
Showboat coming up the river
See her lanterns flicker in the gentle breeze
I can hear the crickets singing in the evening
Old Dixie Lily moving past the cypress trees

My little boat - she rocks easy
I've been catching catfish in the creek all day
Oh, and I've never seen ladies like those on the big boats
Must be fancy breeding lets you live that way

Dixie Lily, chugging like a grand old lady
Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun
Plowing through the water with your whistles blowing
Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run

Papa says that I'm a dreamer
Says them 'squitas bit me one too many times
Oh, but I never get lonesome living on the river
Watching old Lily leave the world behind
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Jolly
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As far north as I live, it's not too bad. A few of the roads are closed and a few homes are flooded, but nothing as bad as what you'd see with a small hurricane.

The folks in Lafayette and Baton Rouge, though...Wowsers! There's stuff flooding down there that hasn't flooded in many, many years.
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Mikhailoh
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Hopefully no deaths so far.
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Jolly
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Three, I think.

BTW, y'all see the video of the woman and dog being rescued from a Miata? An almost Darwin Award winner. Apparently, she took her boyfriend's Miata, instead of his Chevy pick-up, to make a booze run through the floodwaters.

Not smart.
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Catseye
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Geez . . . did she have to go and endanger the dog?
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Dramatic

http://www.wafb.com/story/32753230/dramatic-video-shows-woman-dog-being-rescued-from-sinking-car?clienttype=generic
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Jolly
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Yep, that's her.
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She is very very lucky.
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George K
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Worse than Katrina?

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Slowly, residents began to return to water-ravaged homes in Baton Rouge on Tuesday after heavy rain submerged large stretches of southern Louisiana, killing 11, damaging entire neighborhoods and prompting tens of thousands of rescues.

Yet as floodwater flowed downstream, officials warned that the danger was far from over. Communities to the south — still in rescue mode — urged residents to stay in their homes or evacuate.

The devastation was severe. In Livingston Parish, just east of Baton Rouge, officials estimated that as many as 75% of the area’s 52,000 homes had been damaged by floodwaters. Southeast, in Ascension Parish, water had seeped into one of every three homes.

“We’ve been through Hurricane Gustav, Katrina, Isaac, and Rita, but this without a doubt is the roughest we’ve ever had in this parish,” said Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard.

As many as 20,000 of the parish’s 141,000 residents had to be rescued after the area endured 25 inches of rain in just three days, Ard said. About 5,000 residents were in shelters.

“At least 75 of my deputies no longer have a home,” Ard said. “What do you tell them? It’s heartbreaking to see a man have an emotional moment, wipe his tears away, and then get back on a his boat and take off. He knows his people need him.”

On Tuesday, President Obama expanded the federal disaster declaration for Louisiana to 20 parishes. More than 60,000 people across the state had already registered for federal aid.

“This is a historic flooding event,” Gov. John Bel Edwards said Tuesday. “When you have a storm that is unnamed — it wasn’t a tropical storm, it wasn’t a hurricane — a lot of times people underestimate the impact that it would have.… But this is historic. We are seeing unprecedented flood levels as the waters move south.”

Edwards estimated that more than 40,000 homes had been damaged by the heavy rainfall and floodwater. About 8,000 people were taking refuge in shelters, he said, noting that the number is shifting as residents return home, relocate to be with family or move into motels.
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“How the #laflood is not on national news truly amazes me,” Abigail Mawae of Baton Rouge posted on Twitter.

“Why isn't national media covering the floods in Louisiana?” tweeted Amy Crowe Duhé, a Baton Rouge nursing student. “This is like nothing we’ve ever seen before.”

Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, assured Louisianans his agency was committed to supporting a full recovery across the state — whether or not the natural disaster was commanding front-page national media attention.

“You have the Olympics, you got the election,” he said. “If you look at the national news, you’re probably on the third or fourth page. FEMA understands this is a very large disaster impacting tens of thousands of people. Regardless of what it may be getting in the national coverage, we know there has been a significant impact here in Louisiana.”

The Louisiana flooding is likely the worst natural disaster in the United States since Superstorm Sandy hammered the East Coast in 2012, according to the Red Cross.
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Shhhh, it's an election year.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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For the area around Baton Rouge...yeah, worse than Katrina.
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Rainman
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I can't help thinking, when the water level goes down, where will all the scary creepy critters be, where are they now?
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Aug 16 2016, 06:48 PM
I can't help thinking, when the water level goes down, where will all the scary creepy critters be, where are they now?
Well, my boss lives in Prairieville, just south of Baton Rouge.

She had to have her husband shoot a gator off of their back deck...
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Jolly
Aug 16 2016, 07:51 PM
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Aug 16 2016, 06:48 PM
I can't help thinking, when the water level goes down, where will all the scary creepy critters be, where are they now?
Well, my boss lives in Prairieville, just south of Baton Rouge.
I'm not sure your boss would appreciate being referred to as a scary creepy critter.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Axtremus
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Taylor Swift donates $1M to Louisiana's flood relief efforts

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/taylor-swift-donates-1-million-to-louisiana-after-devastating-floods_us_57b45384e4b0edfa80da525e
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Jolly
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And the funny thing is, there are places that were flooded, where the water has receded. There are other places that didn't flood, that are currently going under water, as the flood waters cause natural drainage areas to receive more water than they can discharge.

Go figure...
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Jolly
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Oh, and another thing...one of the guys I work with still has 2 feet of water in his house. Another part of my team was married last week and he can't drive to his house because of floodwater (he was able to boat in and was very happy to find his house didn't have any water in it...a half-dozen of his neighbors weren't as fortunate).

And it looks like we have a another seven days of rain...
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George K
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Geez, I'm old enough to remember when POTUS not showing up at a major flood was a scandal.

Today, not so much.

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Now that the flood waters ravaging Louisiana are receding, it's time for President Barack Obama to visit the most anguished state in the union.

Last week, as torrential rains brought death, destruction and misery to Louisiana, the president continued his vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, a playground for the posh and well-connected.

We’ve seen this story before in Louisiana, and we don’t deserve a sequel. In 2005, a fly-over by a vacationing President George W. Bush became a symbol of official neglect for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The current president was among those making political hay out of Bush’s aloofness.

Sometimes, presidential visits can get in the way of emergency response, doing more harm than good. But we don’t see that as a factor now that flood waters are subsiding, even if at an agonizing pace. It’s past time for the president to pay a personal visit, showing his solidarity with suffering Americans.
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The optics of Obama golfing while Louisiana residents languished in flood waters was striking. It evoked the precedent of the passive federal response to the state’s agony in 2005, a chapter of history no one should ever repeat.

The president acted prudently in officially declaring a disaster for the flooded part of the state, a key step in advancing federal aid. We’ve been heartened so far by the active involvement of Craig Fugate, head of Federal Emergency Management Agency, a far cry from FEMA’s hapless Michael Brown in the days after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was slated to visit Louisiana today to assess the damage.

But a disaster this big begs for the personal presence of the president at ground zero. In coming here, the president can decisively demonstrate that Louisiana’s recovery is a priority for his administration – and the United States of America.

The president’s vacation is scheduled to wrap up on Sunday. But he should pack his bags now, and pay a call on communities who need to know that in a national catastrophe, they are not alone.
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I think King Putt should stay on vacation, and stay out of the way.
Edited by Rainman, Aug 18 2016, 06:39 PM.
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John Galt
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From WAPo.

Wonder if Louisianans care if Obama shows up. They're not chomping at the bit to see Trump. It's the distraction thing.

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WASHINGTON — The Latest on Campaign 2016 (all times local):

9:35 p.m.

Louisiana's governor's office says it has not been contacted by Donald Trump's campaign concerning a possible tour of the state's flood damage.

A campaign official had said the GOP nominee and his running mate Mike Pence will travel to the state Friday. That person spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the plans before they were officially announced.

Richard Carbo, spokesman for Gov. John Bel Edwards, says Trump "hasn’t called the governor to inform him of his visit."

Carbo says Trump is welcome to Louisiana, "but not for a photo-op."

Instead, Carbo proposes Trump "consider volunteering or making a sizable donation to the LA Flood Relief Fund to help the victims of this storm."

Edited by John Galt, Aug 18 2016, 06:13 PM.
Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.
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George K
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Yes, I'm opposed, on principle, to the appearance of any public official at a disaster for a photo-op. It's pandering.

Yet, 10 years ago, the president was vilified for not doing exactly that.

We can discuss, for a long time (and we have, for that matter) whether the federal response to the disaster was appropriate, timely and lawful. But the picture of W, looking out of a plane window is the image that stuck.

I suppose it's an easier shot that one of POTUS on the 17th green.
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Obama doesn't care about white people.
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Mikhailoh
Aug 18 2016, 06:39 PM
Obama doesn't care about white people.
Pretty hard to not swing at that piñata wasn't it? :lol2:
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He'll pose with some needy white people when the need arises.
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