The August Flood of 2016

[Cajun90]

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The 9:00 p.m. tracks really suck. This thing needs to track east of us to get a strong north wind to force all this water out. The rains yesterday and today have slowed the fall of the river.

Its certainly worrisome that the river is still in major flood stage and we have a rainmaker sitting just offshore and a potential storm/hurricane down the road.

The longer that wave down by the Bahamas stays weak the higher the chance that it is going to get deeper into the GOM because it will be influenced by the low level steering currents which will keep it headed West. As of this a.m. it appears that it will indeed stay weak for at least a few more days. Not good because the GOM is going to be a powder keg for development.

[CajunEXPRESS]

This morning it had a 20% chance of developing into a named storm for Florida, and 60% chance for GOM. Pretty sure it will be hitting La late next week unless things change, we need that high in the SE USA to weaken or move much further East.

[Ragin4U]

Every single day somebody catches it, it's keeping the vermillion at flood stage...I'm really praying we don't get a storm because I don't even want to think about what a storm surge would do right now.

The river at E Broussard rose abt 6 inches or so from yesterday am to pm. I could see abt .5 of a foot of the dock at the gravel yard in the morning and almost none on the way home.

[CajunAmos]

I agree. I have visited Cuba many times. The Cuban people are the most humble, hardworking, polite, gracious and educated people I have ever come across in my travels. They are aware that their govenment is less than ideal but they have found a way to be happy, instead of bitter about it. I have many fond memories of the friends I have made there. Every neighborhood has a person in charge of making sure the people there are safe during a storm or any catastrophe.

Although I cannot agree with their communist government I will always love the Cuban people. JMO.

Hmmmmmmmmmm. For years, I think you could have used "The Cuban people are the most humble, hardworking, polite, gracious and educated people I have ever come across in my travels. They are aware that their government is less than ideal but they have found a way to be happy, instead of bitter about it." statement about most Cajun fans by changing one word.

[HelmutVII]

The river at E Broussard rose abt 6 inches or so from yesterday am to pm. I could see abt .5 of a foot of the dock at the gravel yard in the morning and almost none on the way home.

this is the link to the La 733 gage

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?cb...ate=2016-08-26

It came up a foot yesterday.

[Cajun90]

this is the link to the La 733 gage

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?cb...ate=2016-08-26

It came up a foot yesterday.

I live nearby and the river is still higher today than I have ever seen prior to this flood event. If I am reading correctly the river rose over 10 feet (4 ft to over 14 ft) from the 11th to the 12th. I say over 10' because it appears it surpassed the gauges capability. The gauge quit recording on the 12th at over 14 feet and didn't start recording again until the 16th. I live nearby and went down to the bridge on a couple of occasions and the water came within one foot of the bottom of the bridge.

[HelmutVII]

I live nearby and the river is still higher today than I have ever seen prior to this flood event. If I am reading correctly the river rose over 10 feet (4 ft to over 14 ft) from the 11th to the 12th. I say over 10' because it appears it surpassed the gauges capability. The gauge quit recording on the 12th at over 14 feet and didn't start recording again until the 16th. I live nearby and went down to the bridge on a couple of occasions and the water came within one foot of the bottom of the bridge.

See the note on the site that said "peak of 19.31 on 8/13/2016 determined from high water mark". That's telling me the water level on the 13th and 14th was higher than the gage could measure and the peak was 19.31). The datum for this gage is MSL (That is 0.0 on the gage is 0.0 Mean Sea Level MSL by North American Vertical Datum, NAVD 1988.) So a reading on this gage can be directly correlated any elevation based on the same datum. This is unlike the Surrey Street gage that is off by 2.76 feet (0.0 on the gage is 2.76 feet MSL NAVD 88). That's why sometimes the gage readings may not jive if you don't know this.

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[Boomer]

Its certainly worrisome that the river is still in major flood stage and we have a rainmaker sitting just offshore and a potential storm/hurricane down the road.

The longer that wave down by the Bahamas stays weak the higher the chance that it is going to get deeper into the GOM because it will be influenced by the low level steering currents which will keep it headed West. As of this a.m. it appears that it will indeed stay weak for at least a few more days. Not good because the GOM is going to be a powder keg for development.

---Thank you guys for these updates-----If only BWK were here!!!

[Boomer]

Coach Pasqual just sent a deal showing the Hurricane path---Say it ain't so!!!