Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good to hear you and yours are still fine. Thank you for sharing that powerful, first hand narrative. a note off the iPad, George On Aug 15, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > We're fine, so far, no flooding in our area. Some in Adam's neck of the > swamp, Iowa, La. near Lake Charles, but his subdivision is built on an old > rice field, and though the soil holds water, it also drains well. > > Eric is fine in New Orleans, he's had to work from home some as the streets > have some flooding, but his house is pretty high, and his apt. is on the > second floor. > > Kathy works for Public Health, and she's likely to go staff shelters soon. > > I won't mince words, this is a serious disaster. > > So far more than 20,000 people are evacuated from their homes. The worst > is around Baton Rouge, and in the Lafayette area. > > More rain today. > > Thank you for your concern. > > > *The following is not my writing!* > > *from Louisiana Voice, a blog I follow:* > > Following a leisurely breakfast Saturday morning, we looked out the front > door to see water from the Amite River (a mile from my house) coming across > the street. > > That was all the warning we got after feeling confident the night before > that we were in no peril. We scrambled to throw some clothing into garbage > bags, gathered our medications and put our dogs on leashes as the water > poured into the home where we had been living the past 22 years. > > Shortly after, a flotilla from the West Baton Rouge Sheriff?s Department > (that?s West Baton Rouge, as in across two rivers?the Amite and the > Mississippi?and two parishes to the west of us) arrived as we struggled to > raise heavy furniture. The deputy who came to our door told us it was > useless because the water was going to go much higher than where we were > trying to raise it. He helped be complete the task anyway?something he > didn?t have to do, but did anyway out of compassion for our plight which > was growing more desperate by the minute. > > He helped carry our bags of clothing and our small dog and I bodily carried > our Chow-Golden Retriever mix through the filthy, swirling water that was > by now deeper than the tops of my white shrimp boots (a required part of > the uniform if you live in South Louisiana). Needless to say the weight of > two boots filled with brown river water made jumping onto tho flotilla > impossible so a pair of deputies bodily lifted me aboard even as an > untimely cramp in my right calf prohibited me from being of much help to my > own rescue. > > Once aboard, another smaller boat pulled alongside carrying a family with a > special needs teenage boy. His wheelchair was lifted onto the flotilla and > his father, who lived behind our home on an adjacent street, lifted his > helpless, diapered atrophied son and placed him gingerly onto his > wheelchair. It was as I watched that boy, unable to even raise his head > that I came to the realization that even though I was losing my home, both > vehicles, my record collection, my books and my computer, our losses were > insignificant. > > >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Jim Hemenway <jim at hemenway.com> wrote: >> >> Has anyone heard from Sonny Carter? >> >> Is he on high ground down there in Louisiana/ >> >> Jim >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > 1714 > Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > > USA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information