The August Flood of 2016

[Boomer]

Sorry to hear you guys had it so rough Boomer. Just to let you know what I've been dealing with, I bought a really sweet place on the Amite river between Port Vincent, & French Settlement about three years ago. Needless to say, we had our own problems being the epicenter of this issue. I had 5 1/2 feet of water in the lower portion of my house. Since my flood insurance doesn't recognize the lower portion of my home as living area, It won't cover most of my damages. I am fortunate that my living area is so high above flood stage.

But others in my subdivision were not so fortunate. The River took out about ten of my neighbors bulkheads, & undermined several of their foundations. it appears FEMA, & the federal government doesn't really care about what happens to this subdivision at this point. The only thing is if they don't address the problems we are having in my part of the river with all haste, it will lead to another major flood event in Baton Rouge in a heck of a lot less than a thousand years.

This flood event is every bit as devastating, & life changing for the Baton Rouge area, & an extremely wide swath westward throughout Acadiana as Katrina was. But I guess we don't rate the help those people got since we're too busy working to dig ourselves out, & not important enough for the mass media to exploit for their own network ratings. It's a sham, but at this point it appears we will not be getting but a big FU from Uncle Sam.

---With the little we thought damage that we had---it grows everyday with bookshelves and other room parts having to be torn out---but the piano is ok!!!

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Watch out everywhere for wildlife. My parents live on Bayou Teche and had a 5' gator in their back yard. I even had a 4' gator in my ditch and I'm 3 miles from the bayou and about a mile from the basin levee.

Seasonal alligator harvest begins at Rockefeller Refuge

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FEMA encourages applicants who get denied to try again

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UPDATE: Tunes on the Teche' flood relief concert underway

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The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns athletic department and Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center are coming together for Acadiana to provide "Two-For-One" tickets to flood victims for the Ragin' Cajuns football game against South Alabama on Saturday (Sept. 17). _

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[CajunDreDog]

BOGO FREE OFFER for tickets on Saturday!!!

Let's pack Cajun Field in RED!

[cajun4life]

Release a hype video. Get some serious TV air time advertising the game. Flood Twitter and Facebook building excitement for the game.

It's only been 2 years since I started on this.

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After flooding, hundreds of fish dead at Horse Farm in Lafayette

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[CajunDreDog]

The weather is what will hurt attendance on Saturday. My wife already told me she's not going.

[HelmutVII]

60% chance of rain Saturday afternoon.

[Hudsheen#Fired]

As of now only high of 20% chance of rain during game time

[31Ragin97]

everyone can re-enter with their second ticket!!! woohoo