Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]++++1 Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information