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Ruddock washed away 101 years ago
Posted on 8/31/17 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 8/31/17 at 12:36 pm
This article is from September of 2015, and I searched but couldn't find anything. It's a pretty neat story of a once habitable town not many people know about.
Doesn't seem like something a train engineer would do...
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Norwood recently wrote “The Day Time Stood Still: The Hurricane of 1915,” which describes life in Ruddock and chronicles the event that forever changed the town.
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Should the residents need to buy anything from New Orleans, they would flag down the train and hand their grocery list to the engineer, who would return with their goods. Because of this, the engineer knew where each resident lived.
Doesn't seem like something a train engineer would do...
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Burg’s recollection of her childhood and the Hurricane of 1915 vividly paints a portrait of the day, 100 years ago, when the town of Ruddock and the surrounding area were destroyed.
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This post was edited on 8/31/17 at 12:37 pm
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Posted on 8/31/17 at 12:37 pm to DuckManiak
Still there last time I passed through.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 12:38 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Still there last time I passed through.
The sign, but not the community.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 12:38 pm to DuckManiak
I love this story and a couple others I have read about the history of that area.
My dad said he saw a documentary on it once, but i've searched and come up empty
My dad said he saw a documentary on it once, but i've searched and come up empty
Posted on 8/31/17 at 12:45 pm to DuckManiak
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Ruddock and chronicles
The chronicles of Ruddock.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 12:48 pm to DuckManiak
I've read an article about a " witch" predicting the destruction of Frenier and a hurricane came threw and destroyed the town. I don't remember if it was the same year as this but it was interesting. It also involved a survivor walking the track back to Hammond to get help.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 12:49 pm to DuckManiak
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Ruddock washed away 101 years ago
Its all that voodoo lady Julia Brown's fault
Posted on 8/31/17 at 1:00 pm to DuckManiak
Thank you for posting this. Def an interesting read.
This post was edited on 8/31/17 at 9:09 pm
Posted on 8/31/17 at 1:23 pm to DuckManiak
Interesting. The Ruddock sign always lets me know I'm almost to the spillway. I never knew there was an actual town there once.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 1:25 pm to DuckManiak
Posted on 8/31/17 at 1:29 pm to DuckManiak
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Ruddock washed away 101 years ago
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The Day Time Stood Still: The Hurricane of 1915
Almost.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 1:48 pm to LSUBoo
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This post was edited on 8/31/17 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 8/31/17 at 1:50 pm to DuckManiak
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It happened September 30th
Yeah, 102 years ago.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 1:53 pm to LSUBoo
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Yeah, 102 years ago.
Yeah, you're right. I'm dumb. My bad
Posted on 8/31/17 at 1:55 pm to DuckManiak
Climate change
Posted on 8/31/17 at 1:57 pm to DuckManiak
and there was no looting in new orleans and more of the city was flooded than was flooded for Katrina...
Posted on 8/31/17 at 2:04 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Still there last time I passed through.
The boat launch?
Posted on 8/31/17 at 2:11 pm to DuckManiak
Isn't there an old overgrown cemetery from this in the swamp?
This post was edited on 8/31/17 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 8/31/17 at 2:14 pm to Hangover Haven
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The boat launch?
You don't know how long it's been since I've passed through.
Posted on 8/31/17 at 2:25 pm to Ed Osteen
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Isn't there an old overgrown cemetery from this in the swamp?
No idea. I grew up hunting in the Manchac swamp, but never really explored further south than the Prairie or Galva canal.
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