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The Unnamed Disaster in Louisiana
cp3iverson
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According to the National Weather Service the amount of rain dropped on three parishes in Louisiana (25 inches in three days) was a once in 1000 years freak occurence. It is the biggest natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy and sadly has little national/worldwide media coverage. The flooding is far from over. The water is moving from town to town. Some rivers and creeks are over twenty feet above their flood level!
The majority of people affected did not have flood insurance because most of these areas had no recorded floods ever on record.
This post is not a complaint but more of an appeal for help.....
@RedCross tweeted this: #LouisianaFlood relief effort could be largest for #RedCross since Superstorm Sandy. Please text LAFLOODS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
Thank you
The majority of people affected did not have flood insurance because most of these areas had no recorded floods ever on record.
This post is not a complaint but more of an appeal for help.....
@RedCross tweeted this: #LouisianaFlood relief effort could be largest for #RedCross since Superstorm Sandy. Please text LAFLOODS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
Thank you
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for a good cause..
not just good angels can do the weather....
(blaming it on website "updates" - play along here, Mods)
done...
we will find a way, we will find our place
we will find a way, we will find our place
This rain would have had the same devastating effect on any region with creeks or small rivers. Swamps had nothing to do with this and river levels were actually lower than usual before this hit. This freak rain event just happened to hit there. It's three inches more than Seattle gets during their entire rainy season....in just 72 hours
40,000 families with flooded homes, my friend. Maybe about 2,000 of them lived near a "swamp".
this post is aimed at everyone who still does not consider this to be the biggest threat to life on the planet today, tomorrow and in the future ...
The good news is, since I guess I'm moving to Nebraska now I don't have to rebuild, so there's that. The real bitch is, since I lost both my cars I'm gonna have to walk there. At least I don't have a lot to carry huh?
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I used to work as a AAA Dispatcher in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans region and Baton Rouge floods easily...any sort of heavy rain for a short amount of time and that city pretty much shuts down...the sewer systems are terrible and obviously living at or below sea level doesn't help
you can't help where you live as there are issues everywhere, but it appears Louisiana suffers from these weather problems often as I can attest to from being attentive to the city, but its a poor/college area so most have no choice
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3 years ago I experienced a 1,000 yr flood.
Many of my neighbors homes were seriously damaged.
Guess I should never have moved to the mountains.
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I moved near the coast of South Carolina where we obviously are under the threat of a hurricane 8 months out of the year. Africa hot summers. It's on the same fault line that destroyed Haiti a few years back. And in October we had one of those 1000 year flooding events.
So where should I go next? Where is it safe from natural disasters? Where can I possibly go so that people like unsung won't criticize me for being too stupid to move away from natural disasters?
we will find a way, we will find our place
The Louisiana Flood of 2016 was triggered by a complicated, slow-moving low-pressure weather system that dumped as much as two feet of rain on parts of East Baton Rouge, Livingston and St. Helena parishes in 48 hours. The record two-day rainfall in those areas had a 0.1 percent chance of occurring in any year, the equivalent of a "1,000-year rain", according to the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center, based at the Slidell office of the National Weather Service.
Someone's not quite as smart as they think. But I'm done arguing about it. I've got way more important things to worry about than some troll. I just came here to get away from all of it for a minute.
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Can't trust the govt.
D'uh
In one part of the country we have fire tornados with a lack of rain then in another far too much rain in Louisana. Stay safe everyone.
Peace
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It's a time for empathy and help if you can give it unsung. Pretty sure this is a good time for Ed's rule "don't be an asshole"
She has a family of 6 they are all safe! Wahooo! But have nothing. And have to start over.
She too said it happened fast.
Those that can be trusted can change their mind.