[Leica] Louisiana

[Nathan Wajsman]

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Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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> On 16 Aug 2016, at 04:05, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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