7 years ago we suffered the Great BR Flood

I tell you what though, that rain had the temps pretty nice for a couple days.

More like the Great LP flood

Yes it is.

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I remember the president or candidate did not even bother to come down to Louisiana

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what did you want him to do ?

I bet you took that govt money though like all the rest

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I remember the president or candidate did not even bother to come down to Louisiana.

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Trump came to BR with a few trailer truckloads of supplies paid for out of his own pocket. Spent a few hours helping to pass the stuff out himself.

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3 family members lost their homes that day. I sat here in Nola listening to a play-by-play from one relative until communication was cut off as she escaped. The others escaped, too. I was in BR 3 days prior with my daughter setting up her apt near LSU. It was gray, cloudy and rainy. Something in the air, it felt. My daughter had come home for the weekend, thank goodness. And brought her adopted dog she saved that week from being taken to CAA Or worse, following the flood. T me, this was more heartbreaking to watch than a hurricane.

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I’ve lived in south Louisiana my whole life. I’ve never seen a downpour like that in a continuous 36 hour period. It was insane.

Some of us didn’t qualify for any help outside of the initial FEMA grant simply because we applied (and did not accept) an SBA loan. While the loan was cheap, the limitations were not acceptable. It would have locked us into a starter home a decade longer than we had planned. It took a literal act of Congress to remove that part of the SBA law where by simply getting approved for a certain amount counts against you as though you had actually received it all.

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I’ve lived in south Louisiana my whole life. I’ve never seen a downpour like that in a continuous 36 hour period. It was insane.

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Yep. And most of the heavy rains were in the worst possible spot to badly affect the Amite flood basin.

I knew my parents house was going to flood by watching forecast that Thursday afternoon. I booked a U-Haul for pick up early Saturday morning and was planning to be up there first thing that day to get some of their stuff out of the house. At that time the Amite crest was expected to be Sunday night.

Of course that all moved way forward with the biblical rain that fell over the next 24 hours or so.
My mom called me that Saturday morning pretty early and said don't worry about coming as the water was already coming onto their street. They drove out as water was starting to reach the doorsteps and barely made it out in their vehicle.

Life changing event for sure. They had 7 feet of water in their house.

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Yep. And most of the heavy rains were in the worst possible spot to badly affect the Amite flood basin.

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I really think we need either the Darlington reservoir or a series of smaller reservoirs. But even then, that kind of rain is going to cause issues.