Louisiana Flood

[poprouge]

Greetings from my home to your's.  Just a couple of pics out of my window on Saturday during the flood here in Louisiana.  

 

[gcal]

Wow. That is scary. I have someone from a camping group I belong to complaining about the lack of publicity that would make more help come, but I have the floods and the CA fire all over my Yahoo newsfeed.

 

[rvwandering]

Wow! Has the water receded? Hopefully your house has a high foundation and is raised above the ground enough to prevent major damage.

 

[ArtW]

dayum!

 

[rvpopeye]

Welcome aboard the CRVL forums Poprouge !
Wow , is that from an overflowing river or too much rain for the ground to absorb?
I have a friend up in the Shreveport area and he says his place is soggy and muddy but it is a LOT worse in the southern parishes. Hope you get some dry weather soon so it starts to dry up. Maybe FEMA will pass out Kayaks for this one ???

I've been in the desert and seen areas like your pics and I never believed that could happen but nature has it's own ideas.

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

Wow, that's a lot of water. Hope you, your family and home is ok. I wish we could alleviate some of your problems by taking that water off your hands......New England has the opposite, we're in a drought.

 

[LeeRevell]

This is hard to deal with. Back around 2000 we had flooding here in north Florida. My sister's property was under chest deep swampy water. She raised her home after the first flood, lost the underfloor insulation. Two weeks later, the second flood hit. Had she waited on insurance to pay to raise the home, it would have been totally flooded.
A friend at work lived near her. He caught catfish from his front deck, and got around the neighborhood by canoe. Normally, closest water was a few miles away!
After the water drops, then you have clean up, smelly residue, dead animals, and the need to bleach treat the water wells and use bottled water for a couple weeks.
With this in mind, I bought my property west of town, on a low hilly ridge. If I get flooded, it will be Biblical!

 

[poprouge]

This was from the initial flooding. I'm luckly on a ridge and my house is raised so no flood damage, thank god. I got over a foot of water before the rains started to slack allowing me to start draining. It was touch and go for a bit with my car, but I got insurance, would have just meant I could get that van sooner. LOL No seriously me and my family were all lucky. Currently we're flooded in (can't get to anywhere because of all the road closures), but I can make it to a grocery store, so I'm okay. My electricity never went out, but I was prepared for that and already had plenty of water (we kinda prep in advance of hurricane season).

While the back flooding isn't flooding me out and I've drained off and can get at least down the road a bit, it is effecting many people who didn't flood on Saturday, poor guys are watching as the waters continue to rise and flood them now. And yes we were talking about how it's really not getting enough national coverage. The main concern for us atm is the mosquitios, they are horrific all down here, and they can't get in to spray. I'm pretty sure we're gonna have a very bad outbreak of the Zika virus. So even those areas that are dry aren't really dry, it's sloppy, and muddle with puddles of standing water everywhere.

Thanks all for the kind words, and I've been a lurker for a while. Thanks for the welcome!

 

[ACagedTraveller]

I have heard in my research about the presence of inexpensive flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program for the homeowners in flood prone areas. How does, or could, the subsidized flood insurance help the current situation? The last major flood event that caught national attention (Hurricane Sandy? in 2012) caused a gridlock in the distribution of aid for the victims. The program after Sandy ran in a perpetual deficit that caused a backlog for the distribution of extended aid.

 

[TrainChaser]

About the NFIP: you have to buy it before you need it.

 

[cyndi]

Yikes. Keeping you, yours and Louisiana in my thoughts and prayers

 

[DannyB1954]

I am technically in a floodplain here in the Mojave Desert, (Pahrump Valley). In my area it is expected that about every hundred years we will get a foot of water. My house is 3' above the surrounding area, (build on a pile of type 2 gravel). I am still required by my the lender to have flood insurance. It is not all that cheap especially in areas that are near water. I pay something like a couple hundred a year for a very low risk area. I think the whole thing is a rip off. The basic homeowners insurance should be required to cover whatever happens to the house.

 

[cyndi]

Insurance, in general, is a scam. But that's another topic, for another thread, on another forum; unless it's insurance related to a mobilelifestyle.

 

[poprouge]

I have heard in my research about the presence of inexpensive flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program for the homeowners in flood prone areas. How does, or could, the subsidized flood insurance help the current situation? The last major flood event that caught national attention (Hurricane Sandy? in 2012) caused a gridlock in the distribution of aid for the victims. The program after Sandy ran in a perpetual deficit that caused a backlog for the distribution of extended aid.

LOL It is NOT inexpensive.  3/4's of the people affected by the floods will not have insurance because of the extreme costs associated with it.  Add to that the fact that the gulf states are the most profitable for the insurance companies and you just want to slap someone.  We do pull together as a community and don't wait for help, which began immediately.  Unfortunately, we're getting kinda pro at it after Rita, Katrina, etc.