Lynn...hope you're high and dry. Let us know.
Anyone heard from Lynn? I read somewhere there were 40k houses flooded in the Baton Rouge area. Hope our friend is alright. This is bringing back memories of a Houston member, Acrylic Man, that lost everything in that flooding 2 years ago. Still haven't heard from him again after he posted that.
I spoke with Lynn just prior to the storms moving in...........have not heard from him since. His home , he said, is relatively high, but with this amount of water, who knows if it is high enough. I'm hoping for the best outcome.
John
Relatively high in Louisiana is still likely below sea level. He lives in Baton Rouge which is where most of the worst flooding is. I hope he is able to stay above the water. I will try to call him later today.
Just got off the phone with Lynn. He only got 1 inch of water in his house and 3 inches in his shop. He fared pretty well compared to a lot of the folks over there. He said it would probably be a couple weeks before they got cable and stuff back, and he would be back on then. In the meantime, he is mopping up and helping his brother clean up his place, where he took a little more water than Lynn. All in all, he made it out pretty well.
That's great to hear....from the pics I've been looking at, not too many escaped damage.
James
Thanks for calling and checking up on Lynn. He is one of us and we are all pulling for him. My best wishes for Lynn and his family.
Jay
James:
How far above or below sea level are you in Pass Christian, LA? Can this type of storm get to you?
Bob
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Hey Guys, thanks for the concerns and well wishes! I am back up and mostly running. I lost the flooring in (4) rooms that we dont really use and the rest of my house has cleaned up pretty well so far. My wife is the executive director of the Red Cross so she has been working practically non-stop since last Sunday morning at 2:00 AM. Baton Rouge had a (200) year rainfall of around 17" while 10 miles to the north and west there was a (1000) year rainfall of 27+ ". I recently had an elevation certificate on my house and at 40 ft above sea level it was 2 ft above the 100 year base flood elevation...I was allowed to drop the FEMA flood insurance in June as a result. I live on a 50 acre lake in a sudivision in the city limits of Baton Rouge.
Thusday, a week ago it started raining... Friday it poured all day, Saturday the rain was steady but much lighter. The lake rose probably 2 1/2 feet or so but by Saturday afternoon it was going down. I went to bed Saturday feeling good. Sunday I woke to find sunshine but the lake was back up by 3 ft or so, higher than I had ever seen it and it didn't take long to realize it was rising steadily. It rose another 3 to 4 ft before cresting around 10 PM. Beaux (my dog) and I evacuated to my neighbors where we spent Sunday night. By 7:30 Monday morning, the water had dropped 6" and was out of the house.
I spent Sunday moving stuff off the floor and I put the Ford on the median of the cul-de-sac in front of my house. Monday the clean up begun and it continues today. All in all, compared to most I feel very fortunate. Here are a few pictures for reference.
Pic 1.....Before.
Pic 2 After...
Pic 3....Ford on an island
If you zoom in Pic 1, note the hand rails on the red brick house to the left. the water cested even with the top of the hand rails.
Sorry to hear you received some damage, but a least you dodged a major bullet, it could have been worst. Last I heard this years hurricane season my be a bad one.
lalessi1:
Wow, you live in such a beautiful home and in a picturesque setting. 27" of rain, I can't even fathom that much precip. I can't even remember a year in which Southern Calif. has had 27" of rain in a year. I hope the weather Gods will give you a break for the rest of the year. Glad to see the 57 is high & dry.
Bob
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Looking at how close you were to the lake and how high it was normally, I'm surprised you were't under 6 feet of water. As Bob said, beautiful setting you live in. Glad to hear you're back on line. Did your '57 have the Pontoon option?
:unitedstates: better days are ahead but you parked the 57 in the proper spot.
Lynn
I 'm happy to hear that you are OK and that you found some high ground for the 57 Custom. However it does look like the water was getting real close to the car. It had to be very scary to go through something like that. Jay
Lynn so glad your damage was minimal.
I do share your pain with the flood insurance thing. While living in Va. Beach, VA we were not in a "flood plain" and no insurance was required. Even though our property was in one of the "highest" elevations in the area (12 ft above mean sea level) I felt I should have it. During the 15 years we lived there we had no encounters with Nor Easters or hurricanes but still worried about it, especially when on one of the many deployments. Turns out eliminating that could have helped the budget greatly....but
I was paying $1800 a year for FEMA flood insurance and NO ONE imagined the water could have possibly got as high as it did. The lake I live on has a control dam that is typically 15 feet higher than the river it drains to over 8 miles away. The river rose 17 feet over flood stage breaking the previous record crest by 5 ft. Over 40,000 homes flooded in the area from a rain event, not even a tropical depression. It was scary watching the water rise all day. I lost very little compared to most and we didn't even loose power. Thanks guys for all the thoughts! :003:
Wow Lynn, those pic's really tell a story, glad it wasn't any worse than it was. Hope the clean up goes fast and there's no more rain for a while. While you had that, we out here in Southern California had this.....Took these photos off of Hwy 138 during the fire storm west of the 15 freeway last Tuesday, Blue Cut Fire, San Bernardino National Forest 8/16/16
Bob, I live kinda on a hill. I joke that it is the biggest mountain in South Mississippi. If it were to flood at my house or garage, the entire coast below me would be screwed, as in completely underwater.
James:
That is good to hear. I don't know why, but I keep wanting to place Pass Christian in Louisiana instead of Mississippi. Anyway good to hear you are not in the flood zone.
Bob
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Quote from: Custom_Shelby on 2016-08-21 12:56
Wow Lynn, those pic's really tell a story, glad it wasn't any worse than it was. Hope the clean up goes fast and there's no more rain for a while. While you had that, we out here in Southern California had this.....Took these photos off of Hwy 138 during the fire storm west of the 15 freeway last Tuesday, Blue Cut Fire, San Bernardino National Forest 8/16/16
Fires are almost a way of life here in the west. I survived the Station Fire in 2009 thanks to fire crews from Wyoming and South Dakota. Mother nature can be cruel, fires, floods, tornadoes..
Guys:
Just a point of interest, the Blue Cut across the 15 Freeway is the actual valley the San Andreas Fault lies in. The City of Wrightwood, CA straddles the fault which proceeds up North past San Francisco and South toward San Diego. When I was going to college back in 1973 I had to do a plane table survey of that burned section by the freeway and write a paper on how the geologic formations wound up the way they are today. That was a fun class.
Sorry for the digression.
Bob
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