There’s a lotta good landfill in that floodway. Somehow someone thought that they should put the new NOLA airport smack dab in the middle of the spillway. Luckily that plan never took flight.
Caught crawfish, crabbed, fished, relaxed at the boat club or water skied in the "suction" along with huntingdove, quail, and snipe in that spillway.
The best description of a form to fill out to determine if you need flood protection is to look at your driver's license. If it says Louisiana, buy flood insurance.
I have and will continue to buy flood insurance. I don't go by flood maps (100 years floods have up to a 30% plus chance of occurring in any year & a 1000 year flood has just under a 3% chance of occurring in any year). Don't like those odds for a few hundred dollars. Our biggest issues remain terrible zoning/development standards in our drainages. Still use each development as a stand alone impact. Best hope for supplying good info for our future development is using the skills of hydrologists at our Universities and firms and paying for data gathering systems that will make the models viable. UL Civil Engr has two really good folks to do this. We'll see if they are supported by the state. That's where the money is for now. Also, we are blessed with a number of firms who can do good hydrology work.
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