[Leica] Louisiana

[George Lottermoser]

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
>> 
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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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