re: May 3, 1978 Flood

That was the first big flood I had to deal with. I was going to Loyola at the time. (I have degrees from both LSU and Loyola).

I remember sitting with a friend in the library. We were looking out of the window and laughing at people walking across campus as their umbrellas were disintegrating in the wind.

I wasn’t laughing a couple of hours later when I got to my car, which was parked on the corner of Calhoun Street and St Charles Avenue, and found that it was under water.

I managed to get it started and tried to drive to my house in Kenner. The interstate was closed so I had to take all kinds of back roads. I made it to the corner of David Drive and Vets before the car conked out for good. I was able to call someone to come pick me up in a truck.

That was my first and still most memorable flood experience along with 1995 which is another long story.