re: May 3, 1978 Flood

I was in eighth grade at St Louis King of France in Bucktown, I remember when it started raining hard that morning and it wasn’t stopping. I knew something was up when parents started showing and getting their kids out of school. They let us out early and the busses couldn’t get to the school, so we had to walk home in waste deep water along the W Esplanade canal. There were gar fish swimming next to us…

When we finally got home, I took my brother’s pirogue paddled all over Metairie. Lakeshore playground looked like a lake.