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Lake Charles flooding
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:27 pm
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:27 pm
Lake Charles has a curse on it.
I have never seen flooding like this absent a hurricane. Cars floating/stranded every, tornadoes...
I have never seen flooding like this absent a hurricane. Cars floating/stranded every, tornadoes...
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Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:28 pm to qwerpoiu
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I have never seen flooding like this absent a hurricane.
Was 2016 really that long ago?
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:31 pm to qwerpoiu
South Louisiana is cursed. It has been hell ever since 2016. I don’t care for the global warming debate but I can’t deny that it’s been raining one hell of a lot more for us lately.
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:31 pm to The Boat
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I have never seen flooding like this
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The Boat
Ironic name
This post was edited on 5/17/21 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:31 pm to qwerpoiu
The working theories:
1. Devil’s bargain for LSU 2019 Championship, packaged with three more years of Mainieri
2. Farmers making goat sacrifices to Molach angered Jehovah
3. Climate change got confused around Alexandria and swung a right instead of a left to New Orleans.
1. Devil’s bargain for LSU 2019 Championship, packaged with three more years of Mainieri
2. Farmers making goat sacrifices to Molach angered Jehovah
3. Climate change got confused around Alexandria and swung a right instead of a left to New Orleans.
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:33 pm to jcaz
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South Louisiana is cursed.
Put Robert E. Lee back on his pedestal!
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:36 pm to qwerpoiu
Sucks that one of the few Louisiana cities with positive momentum is getting wrecked by mother nature.
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:36 pm to DiamondDog
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3. Climate change got confused around Alexandria and swung a right instead of a left to New Orleans.
Am I the only person confused by this?
Either way I hate that this is happening to you all in that area
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:52 pm to qwerpoiu
What's the flooding look like? Any live streams?
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:54 pm to notiger1997
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Am I the only person confused by this?
Apparently climate change was heading south on I-49.
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:55 pm to Sao
Looking for livestreams too besides the DOTD 511 traffic cams
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:55 pm to qwerpoiu
It's like 8 feet above sea level in a spot that gets tropical storms. It's not that complicated. It should have never had any significant infrastructure investment to begin with, the only reason it does is because it's cheap crappy land and when they build chemical plants no one wants to live by, they look for cheap land, people dumb enough to welcome the cancer, and the investment assumes it will only operate for 30 years so they can depreciate the bejesus out of it quickly and abandon/sell within a time period that it statistically has an ok chance of surviving through.
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:57 pm to notiger1997
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Am I the only person confused by this?
Either way I hate that this is happening to you all in that area
Alexandria is right in the middle of the state
Heading south you can either go east to BR & eventually NOLA or go west to Lafayette & Lake Charles
You really don't make the decision until you either get off I-49 in Opelousas to head east (the I-10 east bypass so you don't have to go to Lafayette to get to BR) or keep on 49 until you hit I-10 in Lafayette and head west
Posted on 5/17/21 at 5:58 pm to calcotron
Here's your hottake of the month. Thanks for your contributions.
Posted on 5/17/21 at 6:09 pm to redstick13
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Here's your hottake of the month. Thanks for your contributions.
The thread led with it being a curse - it's not, it's inevitable. I don't know why people act surprised, or why they choose to stay anywhere that floods. I watched the water come 3 inches from my house in 2016, I was lucky. Never again. Yes it sucks, but how does everyone not know it will keep happening? Continuing to rebuild and develop there is just dumb, financially. Elevation maps are not hard to read. Downvote away because it sounds like lack of sympathy, but rather than feel sorry for folks down there, I wish they would move to smarter places so they don't have to go through it again (and again).
Posted on 5/17/21 at 6:11 pm to calcotron
quote:let me tell you about the Netherlands...
It should have never had any significant infrastructure investment to begin with,
Posted on 5/17/21 at 6:15 pm to qwerpoiu
So a friend is approaching the I-10 bridge in this severe storm. He's in the right lane eastbound...right. So what does he encounter? A white car traveling west in the eastbound lane. He dodged the car, cringed, looked in his rearview mirror to view the crash. So cars behind him are dodging the idiot. He lost the car in the whiteout. People do stupid things when they're panicky.
Which brings me to advise you folk. NEVER, and I do mean NEVER park on the shoulder under an overpass hoping to escape bad weather. I once saw a woman in a panic mode pull under an overpass in a driving rain and park, not on the shoulder under the overpass, in the traffic lane under the overpass. Dang near whiteout conditions due to rain. She couldn't park on the shoulder so she simply parked under the overpass. I almost hit her from behind. Luckily I was driving very slowly. Better to try to punch through the beast.
Which brings me to advise you folk. NEVER, and I do mean NEVER park on the shoulder under an overpass hoping to escape bad weather. I once saw a woman in a panic mode pull under an overpass in a driving rain and park, not on the shoulder under the overpass, in the traffic lane under the overpass. Dang near whiteout conditions due to rain. She couldn't park on the shoulder so she simply parked under the overpass. I almost hit her from behind. Luckily I was driving very slowly. Better to try to punch through the beast.
This post was edited on 5/18/21 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 5/17/21 at 6:16 pm to calcotron
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wish they would move to smarter places so they don't have to go through it again (and again).
Right, because it's easy to sell that flood prone house for enough money to move to the higher ground.
Posted on 5/17/21 at 6:18 pm to DiamondDog
Casinos? Isle of Capri, Laberge, and Golden Nugget all in one city.
Posted on 5/17/21 at 8:14 pm to jimbeam
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let me tell you about the Netherlands...
If you did, you would note that it is tiny as hell and they engineered the crap out of it to make it work vs. just wondering why bad weather keeps happening with the same result. Also no tropical storms. Terrible comparison.
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