[Leica] Louisiana

[Steve Barbour]

glad to hear so far so good


steve


>>> 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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