The Unnamed Disaster in Louisiana

cp3iverson
cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
edited August 2016 in A Moving Train
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
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  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    good post..
    for a good cause..
    not just good angels can do the weather....
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    edited August 2016
    Edit #2, dammit!
    Post edited by hedonist on
  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    classic example is when the devil killed jobs 10 children with a tempest...true facts
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    edited August 2016
    For fuck's sake, I didn't mean to quote myself.

    (blaming it on website "updates" - play along here, Mods)
    hedonist said:

    *edited after re-thinking a comment made to another comment.
    So,

    OP, thank you. This has been a month of donations from my sweetheart and I, for various reasons to various recipients. Shall do this as well.

    Post edited by hedonist on
  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    cp3iverson said:

    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

    were you trying to requote this hedo ??
    done...
  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    Having just went through flooding here in october, I have an idea what they're going through. It's so hard to see people losing everything like that. One positive is seeing all of the selfless acts people are doing to save lives. That guy that pulled a woman and her dog from a car that was underwater is inspiring and heroic.
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  • unsung
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    Build in a swamp...
  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    unsung said:

    Build in a swamp...

    Yea, it's their own damn fault.
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  • unsung
    unsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Yeah, no common sense.
  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    Unsung, i never forgot a woman in NYC who made a similar comment in an AP article about a past hurricane. "It's their own fault. They choose to live there." A month later Superstorm Sandy hit her region.

    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".
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    this ... is ... global warming ...

    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 ...
  • evenflow
    evenflow Posts: 401
    unsung said:

    Yeah, no common sense.

    Dude, thanks for opening my eyes to that. Hey, you hear that everyone from south Texas to FL, we need to move because someone smarter said so. I guess we should all go to the upper east coast and live. Oh, but wait, they have blizzards and hurricanes too. Well crap, I guess we should all pack up the whole east and southern people now and move to the west coast. Wait, you mean they have droughts and wild fires and earthquakes? Well shit. I guess every person in any of those areas needs to move to the middle of the country. Sure, we'll have to dodge the occasional tornado or dust storm, but other than that and the overcrowding we'll be free from natural disasters.
    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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  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    Don't think the Midwest doesn't sit on a fault line either.
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  • unsung
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    evenflow said:

    unsung said:

    Yeah, no common sense.

    Dude, thanks for opening my eyes to that. Hey, you hear that everyone from south Texas to FL, we need to move because someone smarter said so. I guess we should all go to the upper east coast and live. Oh, but wait, they have blizzards and hurricanes too. Well crap, I guess we should all pack up the whole east and southern people now and move to the west coast. Wait, you mean they have droughts and wild fires and earthquakes? Well shit. I guess every person in any of those areas needs to move to the middle of the country. Sure, we'll have to dodge the occasional tornado or dust storm, but other than that and the overcrowding we'll be free from natural disasters.
    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?
    I lived in a flood plain. Guess what, it flooded. Guess what #2, I moved.
  • pjalive21
    pjalive21 St. Louis, MO Posts: 2,818
    edited August 2016
    unsung said:

    Yeah, no common sense.

    He has a point but not expanding on the thought hurts the post

    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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  • evenflow
    evenflow Posts: 401
    Well guess what, I've never flooded before this. My parents old house that was built in the 50's has also never flooded. Guess what happened this time. So please tell me, where did you move that you're immune to freak 1,000 year natural disasters? Get a few beds ready, because me and everybody I know are coming over to your house to crash.
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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,517
    cp3iverson said:

    Unsung, i never forgot a woman in NYC who made a similar comment in an AP article about a past hurricane. "It's their own fault. They choose to live there." A month later Superstorm Sandy hit her region.

    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".

    I live in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
    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.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,766
    evenflow said:

    Well guess what, I've never flooded before this. My parents old house that was built in the 50's has also never flooded. Guess what happened this time. So please tell me, where did you move that you're immune to freak 1,000 year natural disasters? Get a few beds ready, because me and everybody I know are coming over to your house to crash.

    how bad is it for you and yours?
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  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    I've lived in NW and NE Indiana. We would get horrific cold and blizzards in the winters and some minor flooding and a constant tornado threat in the summer.

    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?
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  • unsung
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    Bentleyspop said:

    cp3iverson said:

    Unsung, i never forgot a woman in NYC who made a similar comment in an AP article about a past hurricane. "It's their own fault. They choose to live there." A month later Superstorm Sandy hit her region.

    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".

    I live in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
    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.
    Let me know when Louisiana is in a 1000 year flood plain.

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