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re: The Great Flood of 2016: Fill Out Disaster Forms NOW. Link Inside!
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:28 pm to UNO
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:28 pm to UNO
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More rain this week though
true! more so concerned with overnight, though.
Overnight actually looks pretty good and tomorrow looks about like today, spotty storms that could dump some localized heavy rain. Beyond that, the next 7 - 10 days look pretty normal for this time of year to maybe a tad on the dry side. Biggest caveat, the Western Pacific looks to stay jacked up with a steady stream of disturbances and typhoons recurving up to the high latitudes. That can make the downstream pattern over N. America pretty unstable beyond 5 days or so.
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Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:28 pm to rt3
4000 building is at Sherwood and North Lake Sherwood Ave.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:28 pm to shawnlsu
I'm off Norwood road at Henderson bayou rd. We have been high and dry so far. Should I expect that to change overnight?
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:28 pm to chRxis
just an aside... anything I put quotation marks around is police scanner chatter
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:28 pm to supernovasky
quote:It is a huge area, so water will be able to dissipate, but the levee that I've walked over on the west side is only like 2-3ft higher than the actual water in the swamp. I believe the other side of 30 has water though
Someone else who has been in the swamps said he doesn't think they can hold that much water.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:28 pm to UNO
I live on Swamp Rd and we are all good.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:28 pm to Puck82
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It's all about watershed. The swamp wasn't being fed by the large areas that the bayou is. It was an isolated area self contained. Now it is being bed by manchac. And is filling up.
I asked it earlier but I didn't see a clear answer. Where is the water going into Spanish Lake? Is it from overtopping Manchac Rd?
Where we're at in St. Gabriel/Bayou Paul area it's Spanish Lake that I am concerned about. There is a canal that drains Plaquemine Point/Sunshine into Spanish Lake (I think) that is probably the only thing that could flood us.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:29 pm to chRxis
You think Oak Alley and Legacy Hills will be ok?
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:29 pm to supernovasky
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Basically this... people see their locations barely budging when the true rate of input is being sent into the swamp
There are a ton of bayous leading out of the swamp to the south. If the swamp really is overflowing then those bayous should be too and theoretically the amount of water going through the swamp could be endless.
No one knows if the swamp is filling. It is just a theory as to why we haven't seen any back filling of bayou fountain
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:30 pm to Impotent Waffle
Summerwood on Burbank is okay. Bayou Fountain in the back has remained at the same height since early afternoon.
This post was edited on 8/14/16 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:30 pm to WaWaWeeWa
Main and Acadian... possible male shot at the location
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:31 pm to WaWaWeeWa
A theory that seems to make some sense. Highland/burbank taking in a good bit of water. Burbank/Bluebonnet is relatively dry. Why?
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:31 pm to doubleb
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understand a swamp is low, water migrates there and during a flood it fills up, but it had already taken over a foot of rain so it wasn't empty.
It wasn't empty no. But it also wasn't at capacity either. Think of it like a lock and damn. The water had two ways to go. It will soon only have one avenue with the same flow that two channels were supporting
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:31 pm to rt3
Anyone know anything about Bellingrath Estates? My inlaws came out of there to my house. They can't get any news. Figured TD would have something in the last 6-12 hours?
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:31 pm to WaWaWeeWa
Santa Maria isn't too bad. Water in road but haven't seen in houses taking it in. Trapped in there though unless you have a boat. Houses along Old Perkins under water and Manchac has risen so high it's from blue bayou to bluff rd almost.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:32 pm to WaWaWeeWa
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Basically this... people see their locations barely budging when the true rate of input is being sent into the swamp
Again, why wont it stay there? At least until the backflow ahead it it ceases
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:33 pm to Paul Allen
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Oak Alley and Legacy Hills
the right hand side (when looking from the entrance) of LH may see some water, if/when the water does get down to this part of Ascension.... OA, not so much... OA South, though, their entrance was flooded Friday night, and out of those 3, they'd be my pick for most likely to flood...
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:33 pm to TigerNation01
What we are seeing is Backflow Flooding through the drainage system. If bayou fountain tops over then there has been some serious effing flooding going on.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:34 pm to WaWaWeeWa
I am in Houston and thus removed from the action. But I have kids & grandkids in Zachary and Central. Let me just say big props to everyone who has been participating in this discussion. There is more valuable and pertinent information in this one thread than has been disseminated in the entire mainstream media this weekend. 
and prayers & best wishes to all of you.
and prayers & best wishes to all of you. Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:34 pm to MiloDanglers
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Basically this... people see their locations barely budging when the true rate of input is being sent into the swamp
Again, why wont it stay there? At least until the backflow ahead it it ceases
It will, just at some point the input will be higher than the output, at least according to the flood maps and the description of what happens when the Amite hits 16'. I am curious - are any of you actually in the area to watch it? Especially Burbank or Highland and Bluebonnet - that is the area I think should be flooding about now.
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