re: Francine - Landfall in Terrebonne Parish as CAT 2 100 mph

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I just assume people like this are bored af with their lives

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You have no idea.

reminded me of this scene from the exorcist III

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I can report a section of downtown Houma just got power from the City of Houma. And cable is working.

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Now I got power in my slice of heaven at home in South Lafourche despite what the Entergy map says.

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INSANE consistency

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Not according to Chad

Storm Surge readings from Terrebonne Parish (from East to West):

Pointe-Aux-Chenes - 7.9'



Humbe Canal in Montegut - 10.4'. (highest ever recorded in Terrebonne Parish)




Bayou Terrebonne - 10.3'




Bush Canal Between Montegut and Lil Caillou - 9.0'




Bayou Lil Caillou - 7.9'




Bayou Grand Caillou - 5.6'



Houma Navigation Canal - 7.9'



Bayou Dularge - 6.6'





No flooding from surge (inside levees) in the Parish, so apparently that ne Morganza levee did its job.

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YES SIR will do.come visit nov 9th 1pm tigah stadium. we can have a shot of crown together and eat sum good food for sure

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Yep.

I was in the process of typing out something similar.

If Terrebonne did not have the Morganza levees it would be a different story.

Places in Dularge, Dulac, Montegut, Cocodrie, and Chauvin would have flooded like in Rita. This storm is the new high water mark in Terrebonne. It showed that the levees work and the federal government should continue to build the levees. Those levees saved the federal government from billions in Flood Insurance claims.

Here is one from 2018.




Some of the project has changed and the Grand Bayou Floodgate has been built.


Unlike New Orleans there is also a second line of defense. There are old Parish levees that straddle some of the communities as a second line of defense.


So if the Morganza failed there is still areas that would need to fill to flood certain areas.


Right now, I think the biggest problem of the system is the lake that is in the middle. Lake Boudreaux is inside and there is enough water in there that a it creates its own wind driven surge. For this storm, water was piling on by Canebreak in Dulac and there was some water that went over the levee because of wind. For Ida, Lake Boudreaux was being pushed out and created a reverse head where the Floodgates were holding in water instead of pushing it out.