Why don't most houses in Louisiana have gutters?

They fill up with leaves and overflow

Mine does only around the back patio... Probably because with the amount of rain we get and the abundance of trees, they are just going to get clogged up.

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Why don't most houses in Louisiana have gutters?

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Because they're a bitch to clean.

Because most people in Louisiana are poor and are savages.

The purpose of gutters is to divert water away from the base of the house. You need them when you have a basement to avoid water seepage through the foundation walls of your basement, especially if you have a finished basement.
As there are typically no basement in the New Orleans area they don't serve a purpose. My house in Baton Rouge had a partial basement which was always flooded.
And houses in areas that get a lot of snow typically won't have them as the weight of the snow and ice will rip them off the house

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I have a section on the back of my house with gutters and I curse them in the fall.

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i just put some up because my back deck in the U-shaped of my back part of the house

I am actually getting on the roof today to blow them out and kept thinking why did i do this

I had gutters on my home for about five years. I removed them last summer. Complete pain in the arse.

I have a basement and landscaping that I don't want to wash away. Of course, I'm on the top of a small mountain in Birmingham.

Most houses around me have gutters.

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Why don't most houses in Louisiana have gutters?

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You only need gutters if you have a basement or crawl space that rain water might accidentally drain into and flood.

Louisiana's swampy soil prevents the building of basements and crawl spaces, so no gutters are needed to wick away the excess water.