re: The Great Flood of 2016: Fill Out Disaster Forms NOW. Link Inside!

Can we get a sticky for all the types of relief that's available, details on who qualifies, for how much, and where the forms are?

shoot... I missed which one but an officer just said a road is about to become impassible

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Exactly so it is all relative. So the area around burbank and staring is at "18" which means it is 3 feet higher than I-10 and manchac. How will it possibly get 3 more feet of water if I-10 and manchac doesnt budge?

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It makes sense. If the drainage basin for the area is ultimately designed to flow to the Amite River (hence all the backflow discussion), that area is further down the drainage line would set up for a higher elevation with regards to flooding. This is what I don't understand completely - they may not be a higher elevation overall, but they are somehow higher on the hierarchy of drainage

That is an argument you will have to take up with FEMA!

That's exactly what wafb said too of the backflow flooding. It would start to go down Sunday then start to creep back up Sunday night and Monday morning. Eerie sign for us on bayou fountain

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I actually think you are reading the map wrong. The squiggly line - numbers are the base flood elevation for a 100 year flood. It doesn't mean that the water level will be at that footage to cause flooding - it means that points below whatever number listed will flood whereas points above will not. It lets you determine if your property, which may have relatively higher ground than surrounding property, is prone to flooding and lets you know how high you have to build.


Exactly so it is all relative. So the area around burbank and staring is at "18" which means it is 3 feet higher than I-10 and manchac. How will it possibly get 3 more feet of water if I-10 and manchac doesnt budge?

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The area around Burbank and Staring is "18" meaning that if your house is at 17 feet, it will flood during the same flood that keeps the area around I/10 and Manchac dry at 15 feet.

It has to do with how narrow or wide the flood swath is. To answer your question, if I-10 and Manchac doesn't budge (although it is budging right now, as seen here: LINK ), then that 18' point on Burbank and Staring still has all of that uphill water coming at it. If it cannot drain (cannot budge), it will spill over into all of the low areas that are lower than 18' in that area.

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Boss lives on somersby. He got water in his house. Not sure how much though. He left and went to a hotel.

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That area is incredibly low. Woodlawn Acres, which is right next to Somersby was one of the first BR neighborhoods to flood.

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How is the riverbend area off Brightside??

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dry as of 5pm today. i've been back and forth all weekend. Some flooding on a few streets near the back, but only saw water up to a few houses. nothing serious

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It makes sense. If the drainage basin for the area is ultimately designed to flow to the Amite River (hence all the backflow discussion), that area is further down the drainage line would set up for a higher elevation with regards to flooding. This is what I don't understand completely - they may not be a higher elevation overall, but they are somehow higher on the hierarchy of drainage

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This is my logic too. And if I-10 at manchac isnt getting worse how would the areas upstream?

I'm not saying it can't go up a little. But to the point where bluebonnet and burbank or burbank and lee are significantly impacted?? thats a big leap

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We are on S Pollard, backing up to Christian Life. Drove over to Dahlia yesterday but couldn't get through and everyone we saw said they were ok on help, and saw today it had receded. We had water over 5 feet deep on our yard but we are up a hill. Where are you?

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We're on the high side of Hyacinth, there is a good 15-20' between our front threshold and the level of the water that was in the ditch behind the houses.