Personally I could care less about oyster beds that weren’t originally there to begin with. Those beds were seeded in areas that were historically freshwater marsh. It’s time that they should be returned to freshwater marsh supplied by the river imo.
It will never happen though.
During the Acadiana summer flood of 2016, we were driving back to Lafayette from Tennessee. The original plan was to head down through Mississippi and catch I-10. Then a portion of either I-55 or I-59 had collapsed, and there was flooding in the areas East of BR.
We only had to go back to Lafayette to get the family dog before heading back to Sugar Land the next day, so we debated leaving the dog another week, but then I decided we’d route through Natchez, Jonesville and Alex to I-49 to get us to Lafayette by midnight so I could sleep a bit.
Well.for some reason with it dark I got confused and took LA 15 South out of Ferriday and before I realized it, we were on along the Mississippi and too late to turn around without losing significant time, so I made sure to creep into any water that was on the road, and there was lots of patches of water.
Water wasn’t coming over the levee, but it was almost as if the force of the river was causing saturation through the ground and rising to the top along the roadway. We eventually made it down to Melville and Port Barre before getting on I-49. Vehicles parked at the welcome center at that exit were completely under water.
EDIT: Now that I decided to revisit a map, remember now that we did go West in LA 360 out of Bayou Current to Pametto, then through Lebeau to I49. Was quite an adventure that late at night knowing areas all around us were under water.
Please BWK return with your input on the subject matter!
Anybody have any thoughts/news about the River, the subject of the thread, not related to politics, religion or any other completely unrelated tropic?
The latest river stage at Red River Landing near the ORCS is 57.95'. Rising almost 6"daily. Flood stage is 48'. The record high flood stage was in May 2011 at 63.39'.
If Jim Cantore shows up you know what happens next.
May be a stupid question. but would water have any possibility of reaching Lafayette in worst case scenario????
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