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Post by dph on Jan 10, 2013 18:43:05 GMT -5
After over 52 hours, it has FINALLY stopped raining, but not after flooding almost all of South Louisiana. I've lived in this area for all my life, and I saw areas underwater today that have never flooded in my life. Fortunately my house is on blocks, but there were many people I know whose homes are flooded. www.klfy.com/story/20555306/acadian-soaked
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Post by dph on Jan 10, 2013 19:48:41 GMT -5
Some pictures borrowed from KATC 3's facebook feed. About 1 mile from my house Here was the road I travel everyday to work, what it looked like this morning.
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Post by dph on Jan 10, 2013 19:54:14 GMT -5
Estimated rainfall. Tomorrow, the sun will come out, then it's another four days of rain.
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Post by nondescript spice on Jan 10, 2013 19:55:52 GMT -5
damn, dph. that's biblical. glad you've been able to remain dry.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Jan 11, 2013 4:47:48 GMT -5
Ouch. I lived in Louisiana for four brief-but-memorable years, don't think I ever saw it get that bad. (And I saw students canoe themselves to school one day.)
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Post by dph on Jan 11, 2013 18:39:44 GMT -5
I've lived here most of my life, I've never seen anything like this. The road in the picture was pretty much bone dry today, the bayou down the road had taken on the water, and it was just inches below the bridge. Further down when you get to the interstate, the land under the bridge was still flooded, as was the new Tourist Info center and two of the three truck stops.
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Post by nondescript spice on Jan 15, 2013 23:12:43 GMT -5
i don't think it is as bad as you've gotten, dph, but we've had almost constant rain for nearly 48 hours in east tennessee. the most rain i've seen around here in 14 years. they have begun evacuations nearby, but it's not nearly as bad where i live, thankfully.
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Post by dph on Jan 16, 2013 18:22:01 GMT -5
Well we are now closing our 9th straight day of dreary, cloudy and/or rainy weather. Tomorrow, Mr. Weatherman has promised the sun will come out. I don't remember what that is anymore. All I know now is rain. I don't know how to prepare for NOT RAIN. How does one dress for NOT RAIN. ;D
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Post by crowschmo on Jan 17, 2013 21:50:03 GMT -5
A sun hat and shades.
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Post by dph on Jan 18, 2013 18:11:13 GMT -5
After all this mess, beautiful.
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Post by nondescript spice on Jan 18, 2013 18:33:32 GMT -5
glad to hear it. the sun finally came out for the first time in almost a week here, and everyone was walking around blinded and confused. after all that rain it finished up with a winter storm that froze everything solid. mother nature is such an attention whore.
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Post by Crowfan on Apr 18, 2013 6:35:30 GMT -5
Chicago area is getting innundated with rain this Thursday....O'Hare Airport has had 5 inches as of this morning, and it's supposed to come down all day. I'm preparing for water in the basement, since I have an older house and it won't be long before the ground will be saturated.
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Post by nondescript spice on Apr 18, 2013 8:26:58 GMT -5
better line it with spare hobos.
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Post by Crowfan on Apr 18, 2013 8:29:46 GMT -5
They work better than sandbags.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Apr 18, 2013 18:14:27 GMT -5
Well, the rain has just become excessive here. Three or four days straight it's been going between light drizzles to heavy downpours.
It's even worse up in the Valparaiso and Michigan City area, they've apparently had flash flood risks and such up there.
Some associated wind with the storms caused a tree branch to land on my car this morning, but the limbs of the branch were spread out in such a fashion as to make them balance over the car like a hand rather than actually impacting the car. So the car was more or less unscathed. And since I got a wacky story out of it, I guess I can call that a win.
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