re: 7 years ago we suffered the Great BR Flood

Home shopping in 2017 was interesting. One of the main things I was looking for was homes that didn't flood the year before, because if it didn't flood then, it most likely never will. Plenty of gutted houses on the market at that time though, I remember having to weed through a bunch of them that still had photos up that were pre-flood.

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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.

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This was pretty much our scenario. We thought we had Saturday to save what we could. Us and many family members in Central and Denham escaped while the water came in. A few in their cars and a few in their boats. We would not have made it out in our truck if our neighbor had not banged on our door at 5am to tell us the water was close. He had gone out to walk his dog.

True. But all of the development didn’t help in Central and LP. Improper drainage is what I’d heard was part of it. It needs to be taken seriously with all of the development or it will happen again. These locations were not flood zones.

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supernovasky was the hero in that original thread.

The post that started it all: First backwater flooding post

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That guy honestly probably saved so e lives with his posts. Also hasn't posted in years

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Obama did more to help than Trump did. Just the truth. Not trying to say that one is better than the other just pointing out facts

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Bless your heart.

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Us and many family members in Central and Denham escaped while the water came in

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Longest 20 minutes of my life was the time from when my mom told me they were trying to leave when the water was up to their door steps and when I was finally able to reach them again to confirm they had made it out.
I had called their neighbor and he had just left and assumed my parents would be right behind them, but confirmed water was almost to the door of his truck.
All I could think about was my dad missing the turn at the end of the road where there was a big drainage ditch.



And damn was it freaking hot while hauling out everything in the house to the street and gutting it.

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Obama was in Zachary

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Oh you mean on the 24th?

After trump publicly ridiculed him on the 19th?

Weird hill to pick to die on.

ETA: as a reminder JBE was sucking his cock on the 25th saying he was happy he waited and that trump shouldn't have come in or offered supplies a week earlier.

In short, frick all of you slimy lying cocksuckers.

It was the 15th for me. shite really hit the fan that day around my parts.

Your butthurt is showing and you should be embarrassed.

Trump still did an amazing thing trying to help those citizens. Why did you feel the need to try and completely derail that to make out like Trump isn’t really that good of a person?

We live about 2.5 miles from the Amite, and a decent bit higher. I thought there was absolutely no way we could flood from it. The wife (nopics) and I even went and volunteered time filling sandbags that Saturday afternoon.

Around 4am I found out how wrong I was.

I looked out the front door expecting to see my lawn, I saw only the upper half of it with the rest below water and reflecting lights in the neighborhood. I walked to where the edge of the water was on my driveway to see if it was moving up, down or staying the same. It was steadily increasing.

I woke my wife (again, nopics) up with the news. She got up, went to the front door, looked outside, then shut the door. She thought for a second then opened the door again. After that we began getting as much off the floor as possible, stacking important documents up high and throwing some clothes and toiletries into trash bags.

By 5am we were just about to leave, the water had moved to within a dozen or so feet of the house. This meant it was probably a good 3-4 feet deep in the street. We had gotten the dog (may she continue to RIP) and what meager items we could and were just about to leave when someone knocked on the door.

A young girl with the national guard was there to let us know they were passing through the neighborhood in a deuce-and-a-half to help people get out. We had to go "now" though.

By that time the water was so deep in the street that I had to carry my 55lb dog. We eventually were taken to the Target parking lot at Millerville. Just as we got everyone unloaded the Guard said they were having to leave because that staging area was going to flood soon and our options were to load everything back on the truck and go to some as-then-unknown location or stay and fend for ourselves.

My in-laws live just off Sherwood (which is where we were going to go) so rather than risk being taken farther away from our destination we decided to fend for ourselves. I grabbed a Target buggy, put our things in it and I pushed it all the way to the Taco Bell at Sherwood with the wife (still nopics) and dog at my sides. Her father picked us up and we went to their house.

Thirty minutes later I had just washed the dog off when we realized their neighborhood was about to flood as well. Once again we got our stuff together and headed out. At least this time we had cars. We went to my wife's grandmother's place at Lake Sherwood Village where the friendly and sympathetic staff fed us. An hour later water started coming up in the parking lot drainage so we said "frick it" and drove up to my family's place in North La. By the time we left BR it was only 9am.

We showered and crawled into bed there in North La with our last thoughts before drifting off to sleep being "if the flood reaches us up here, frick it, we're going out like that old couple on Titanic".

In the aftermath we spent almost as much repairing the house (no flood insurance because the area hadn't flooded in the entire history of BR and was listed as having a natural levee - we ended up with 10 inches of water in the house) as we did to buy it (just two years earlier).

Even if I live on a mountaintop I'll always have flood insurance from now on.