[Leica] Louisiana

[Ted Grant]

Sonny my friend,
My family here have offered prayers for you and your family on this day. May you survive the situation safely and without any mishaps of any kind.
Ted Grant O.C. 

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Sonny Carter
Sent: August-15-16 4:07 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Louisiana

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
>
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Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA

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