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re: One dead after severe storm passes through (BR) south Louisiana( drowned in vehicle)
Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:11 pm to slackster
Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:11 pm to slackster
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It's terrible that someone lost their life, but drowning in your vehicle is 100% avoidable.
possibly unconscious and sleeping one off
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Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:39 pm to kengel2
It was not an underpass, it was an entrance ramp to I-110 which makes it even more confusing at Chippewa.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:48 pm to winkchance
It was NOT at the Chippewa entrance ramp!! There is a rail underpass on Chippewa near the on ramp by Exxon’s south entrance gate. That is where this happened! I work right by there and we had coworkers who saw the recovery efforts. The news reports saying it was at the on ramp were wrong
Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:49 pm to winkchance
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This was NOT at the on ramp at Chippewa and 110. It was on Chippewa at the railroad underpass by the Exxon South Gate which is about 1/4-1/2 mile from that on ramp. Very similar to the Acadian underpass layout.
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It was not an underpass, it was an entrance ramp to I-110 which makes it even more confusing at Chippewa.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:52 pm to tigamike
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There is a rail underpass on Chippewa near the on ramp by Exxon’s south entrance gate. That is where this happened! I work right by there and we had coworkers who saw the recovery efforts.
Was it a baw?
Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:55 pm to J Murdah
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Love that picture, not a cell phone in sight just kids living in the moment
You can't see that cell phone because that's what they were taking the picture on...
Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:59 pm to winkchance
Idiot drowned end of story.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 4:02 pm to BowDownToLSU
There were cars broken down all over the place in Lafayette this morning. so dumb
Posted on 6/6/19 at 4:10 pm to OysterPoBoy
It was indeed not a baw! A baw woulda just used his truck nuts as a flotation device!
Posted on 6/6/19 at 4:21 pm to BowDownToLSU
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Sharron Weston Broome
I can't stand her voice, face or anything about her.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 5:54 pm to winkchance
i didn't see the one where the dude died.... but i was like 3rd in line by the one on Choctaw, where the gray car was almost fully submerged... one of the girls my wife works, her husband worked with the dude that died.... said he had just got rained out at the plant and was just going back home...
i was trying to get North, and 110, Choctaw, and Chippewa, were all closed... had to go all the way back to 10, then 12, then to Airline by Cortana, to Florida, to like Joor (i think), to Mickens, to Hooper, to be able to get to where I needed to be....
i was trying to get North, and 110, Choctaw, and Chippewa, were all closed... had to go all the way back to 10, then 12, then to Airline by Cortana, to Florida, to like Joor (i think), to Mickens, to Hooper, to be able to get to where I needed to be....
Posted on 6/7/19 at 9:34 pm to slackster
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drowning in your vehicle is 100% avoidable.
It should be but it’s not. Have you been submerged in a vehicle in the pitch black? I have. I’m lucky I was able to get out. I couldn’t initially. Kinda leads to panic.
I was 17 (1988) driving my first car (1986 Mustang GT)...which I bought with money I made cutting grass the previous summer. I had just dropped my girlfriend off at her house. They lived out of town off a small country road. There is a 90* turn about halfway down the road that had claimed a few lives so we called it Deadman’s Corner. Anyway, it was about 1045pm and I had to be home by 11 (20mins away) or I would get my car taken away for a couple weeks and my head busted by my dad.
The road was a little damp but it wasn’t raining. I was doing 70 (35mph zone) headed back toward Deadman’s Corner. Usually not a big deal because there are huge signs warning about the corner. Well, unknown to me the signs had been knocked down that same day by a drunk driver. I realized I fricked up about 200ft before the turn (trees to the left hid the turn). I hit the brakes and locked up the tires while turning to try to make the turn. That didn’t happen. I went off the end of the road sideways and when my tires hit the soft dirt my car flipped over twice and into the creek and sunk about 10ft to the bottom. I was knocked out for a few seconds during the event. What woke me up was the cold arse water filling the cabin hitting my face (luckily the windows were up bc it was a cool December night).
I woke up just in time to see my headlights flicker out. So there I was hanging upside down in the pitch black with water quickly filling the car. I panicked. I was able to unbuckle my seatbelt and get my feet under me. I was disoriented from the head injury and the panic. I couldn’t find the door! I was able to get one last breath before the car filled with water. I managed to find the door and handle but couldn’t get it open. I thought it was jammed from the crash...it wasn’t. Just when I thought I was about to run out of air I was able to get the door open and swim to the surface.
That scared the crap out me and I can remember that panic while typing this. You never know how you’ll react in situations until you’re in them. I now carry a knife with a window breaker in the handle in every car I own. I have ever since this wreck.
Posted on 6/7/19 at 10:31 pm to LSUERDOC
I passed under the tracks on Chippewa yesterday just as the heavy rain began (8:15am or so).
Water wasn’t even on the road yet, but you knew it would build quick based upon the intensity of rain and the history of flooding at that spot.
I remember thinking when I drove under it that undoubtedly some idiot would get flooded out in a vehicle shortly.
Water wasn’t even on the road yet, but you knew it would build quick based upon the intensity of rain and the history of flooding at that spot.
I remember thinking when I drove under it that undoubtedly some idiot would get flooded out in a vehicle shortly.
This post was edited on 6/7/19 at 10:32 pm
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:24 am to LSUERDOC
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drowning in your vehicle is 100% avoidable.
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It should be but it’s not
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The road was a little damp but it wasn’t raining. I was doing 70 (35mph zone) headed back toward Deadman’s Corner.
I would say that was avoidable.
Posted on 6/8/19 at 12:48 am to LSUERDOC
quote:
It should be but it’s not. Have you been submerged in a vehicle in the pitch black? I have. I’m lucky I was able to get out. I couldn’t initially. Kinda leads to panic. I was 17 (1988) driving my first car (1986 Mustang GT)...which I bought with money I made cutting grass the previous summer. I had just dropped my girlfriend off at her house. They lived out of town off a small country road. There is a 90* turn about halfway down the road that had claimed a few lives so we called it Deadman’s Corner. Anyway, it was about 1045pm and I had to be home by 11 (20mins away) or I would get my car taken away for a couple weeks and my head busted by my dad. The road was a little damp but it wasn’t raining. I was doing 70 (35mph zone) headed back toward Deadman’s Corner. Usually not a big deal because there are huge signs warning about the corner. Well, unknown to me the signs had been knocked down that same day by a drunk driver. I realized I fricked up about 200ft before the turn (trees to the left hid the turn). I hit the brakes and locked up the tires while turning to try to make the turn. That didn’t happen. I went off the end of the road sideways and when my tires hit the soft dirt my car flipped over twice and into the creek and sunk about 10ft to the bottom. I was knocked out for a few seconds during the event. What woke me up was the cold arse water filling the cabin hitting my face (luckily the windows were up bc it was a cool December night). I woke up just in time to see my headlights flicker out. So there I was hanging upside down in the pitch black with water quickly filling the car. I panicked. I was able to unbuckle my seatbelt and get my feet under me. I was disoriented from the head injury and the panic. I couldn’t find the door! I was able to get one last breath before the car filled with water. I managed to find the door and handle but couldn’t get it open. I thought it was jammed from the crash...it wasn’t. Just when I thought I was about to run out of air I was able to get the door open and swim to the surface. That scared the crap out me and I can remember that panic while typing this. You never know how you’ll react in situations until you’re in them. I now carry a knife with a window breaker in the handle in every car I own. I have ever since this wreck.
I used to drive past Deadman's Corner on my way to Lover's Lane across the tracks towards the coal mine just a ways down Main Street near the old saw mill by the creek.
Anyway, subtle brag about having a girlfriend and a Mustang GT at 17.
Posted on 6/8/19 at 4:22 am to Huey Lewis
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subtle brag about having a girlfriend
Man, anyone with a car back then could score at least two dates with old run-around Sue.
Posted on 6/8/19 at 4:54 am to BowDownToLSU
The easy fix to all this is to get Silky Slim, Gravy, the two white SJW chicks, while wearing BLM shirts, to do some Facebook live videos about how it is racist and is keeping black folks down and this will all get fixed
Posted on 6/8/19 at 7:15 am to TigersSEC2010
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A lot of idiots out there are asking to drown. The ones who drive around the barricades at the Acadian rairlroad bridge and then wait for someone to rescue them are the worst of the worst. They're always in tiny arse cars with no hope of making it, too.
Wif chrome wheels & slick tires
Posted on 6/20/19 at 8:43 am to tigamike
What, media report was wrong, shocker.
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