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May 3, 1978 Flood
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:09 pm
Let's hear your stories. I remember JP's boating to Pistol Pete's home to get him to the Dome for a game.
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This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 1:11 pm
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Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:10 pm to Wing T
I was thinking of the one in 95.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:11 pm to VetteGuy
Edited the title.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:12 pm to Wing T
10 yrs old, pirogue down the streets of Metry with my brothers. Glorious day.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:12 pm to Wing T
No problem, 95 was special.
Blessed event 9 months later.
Blessed event 9 months later.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:16 pm to Wing T
I wasn’t born yet 
My parents and sibling lived upstairs at the time. My parents had a friend that walked in high water and then had a heart attack.
We didn’t flood in 1995. Mid city didn’t flood then
My parents and sibling lived upstairs at the time. My parents had a friend that walked in high water and then had a heart attack.
We didn’t flood in 1995. Mid city didn’t flood then
This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 1:19 pm
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:20 pm to Wing T
I was in middle school (8th grade) in English Lit class. Two inches of water flowing down the hall. We sat in class for a couple of hours until buses arrived and took us home. I got off the bus at Rosa Avenue/ Veterans Highway (closest bus could get to my house)and waded home..
This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:21 pm to GruntbyAssociation
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Rosa Avenue
Ahh, Lakeshore guy. Salut
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:21 pm to GreenRockTiger
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We didn’t flood in 1995.
We didn't either, but we couldn't leave the house so...
Wasn't out of HS in 78, so I don't recall much about it.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:22 pm to Wing T
quote:
Ahh, Lakeshore guy. Salut
From age 7-13, all sports.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:23 pm to VetteGuy
quote:I went to school
but we couldn't leave the house so
I didn’t know it was closed Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:34 pm to Wing T
Lived in Metairie about 2 blocks from airline hwy. I was in high school and remember the water came about 3/4 of the way up our lawn.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:35 pm to Wing T
I was 14 at the time.. I remember we took my dad downtown to work at around 8am. The heavens opened up on the way there. I remember my brother saying "Look at the sheets of rain".
Then they dropped me off at school. There was a field trip scheduled that day and the school went ahead with the trip. LOL... We got stuck on Claiborne Ave in front of Ursuline on the neutral ground.. That area floods real bad. I don't remember how long we were there or how I got home.. I remember the teacher was pissed and screaming at us kids for talking.. This guy was a piece of work...
Then they dropped me off at school. There was a field trip scheduled that day and the school went ahead with the trip. LOL... We got stuck on Claiborne Ave in front of Ursuline on the neutral ground.. That area floods real bad. I don't remember how long we were there or how I got home.. I remember the teacher was pissed and screaming at us kids for talking.. This guy was a piece of work...
Posted on 5/3/24 at 1:58 pm to GreenRockTiger
quote:Oh you sweet southern child.
I wasn’t born yet
Posted on 5/3/24 at 2:35 pm to soccerfüt
2nd grade. My mom came and got me from school at 11:30.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 3:02 pm to The Mick
quote:
10 yrs old,
same here, grew up off David Dr. near Delta Playground and Lafreniere Park . Streets were flooded 12-14", thankfully no water in the house
Posted on 5/3/24 at 4:14 pm to Wing T
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.
When we finally got home, I took my brother’s pirogue paddled all over Metairie. Lakeshore playground looked like a lake.
This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 5/3/24 at 4:24 pm to Wing T
I was in kindergarten, neighbors came and stayed with us because their house flooded.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 5:01 pm to Wing T
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.
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.
Posted on 5/3/24 at 5:10 pm to Got Blaze
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Streets were flooded 12-14", thankfully no water in the house
That is why you never purchase a house that is lower than the street especially in southeast Louisiana.
If you give yourself at least 2 feet off the ground and a foot of freeboard your chances of flooding are almost nil. Now for a hurricane or extreme river event on the north shore that is different especially if you live in an unprotected area.
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