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 it. Sorry for all those less fortunate. Hope things subside soon and let the water drain away. Stay safe. Aram -----Original Message----- From: Sonny Carter Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 4:06 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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