Posted on 03/13/2016 7:42:38 PM PDT by Mechanicos
Was not picking on you. People who are not from Louisiana or do not understand Cajuns really butcher how some things are pronounced and spelled. Get in discussion with Texans about several words, such as bayou. Glad you know how to spell Hebert - lot of Texans try to pronounce it He-bert. Drives me crazy.
My only point was that in a post telling people to EVACUATE NOW, it’s kind of important to get the name of the town right.
“... lot of Texans try to pronounce it He-bert. Drives me crazy.”
Your comment reminded me of the movie True Grit (with John Wayne) that was on last night. With him calling the Texas Ranger (Glenn Cambell) a “Texican” the entire time.
I’m in Washington state. 20+ years and I’m guessing I still don’t pronounce things properly, especially all of the Indian names right for the rivers and towns.
And I still have to catch myself, I grew up in the Midwest, but out here the town of Des Moines is pronounced with both “s” sounds. (I thought folks were making fun of it the first time I heard it!)
But, when in Paris....
Democrats in charge, voted in were given funds years ago to stop gap these events. They spent the money to build casinos, convincing themselves that they would use the revenue and profits to fix the water, flooding problems. But the revenue found its way into politicians freezers instead. I feel for the Republicans caught in this but not so much for the dopes who elect these thieves and then abdicate their duty as a citizen to manage those WHO WORK FOR THEM!
Those floods in the early 90’s were part of a series of wild weather scenarios produced by the high level ash thrown out by Pinatubo for several years after that major eruption. Here is a rather technical paper for those who like technical.
http://eaps4.mit.edu/research/papers/Pinatubo1996.pdf
And here is a more popular style article, with several interesting links. While mentioning the Yellowstone eruption around 640,000 years ago, it fails to mention the equally big or bigger Mt. Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago that almost wiped out the human line.
http://www.livescience.com/14513-pinatubo-volcano-future-climate-change-eruption.html
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s gonna break.
The Louisiana governor has asked Obama for a disaster declaration for a number of areas. See FR thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3408880/posts
There is really nothing to fix when it comes to heavy rain that lasts for days. The rivers just can’t hold that much water and it all has to flow south to the gulf. You are making this event political when it isn’t.
Is this a big town?
Kinda wondering how you evacuate an entire town with imminent flash flooding, especially in the middle of the night. Yikes.
See post #15!
Bayou Lafourche begins in Donaldsonville, La. A bayou is a tidal waterway that flows both directions. There is no dam on the bayou. SHISH!
Then I saw the speed limit sign at the bridge - the bottom of the sign was about a foot above the water line! I backed up and just stared in awe as my mind slowing took in the scene.
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had the same thing happen to me, except it was a car aerial sticking out of the water. It waa abandoned, no one in it I found out later. Big puddle
Greetings to you - and Godspeed! From a Protestant admirer.
Is the chaos beginning?
Amen!
And if the levee breaks, we’ll have no place to stay.
And to you. God bless.
Well, excuse me. It is Hebert. Go bitch at the one that posted it
Sorry, I wasn’t “b*tching” at you or anyone else. Sorry if it came across that way. I was just saying that the point was the spelling, that’s all.
Then I saw the speed limit sign at the bridge - the bottom of the sign was about a foot above the water line! I backed up and just stared in awe as my mind slowing took in the scene.
Wise decision. Many people underestimate the actual depth of the water or that of the power of moving food water across a roadway and are too impatient to care.
I remember here in central PA when tropical storm Lee hit the area in 2011 – record flooding on a par with Agnes. My work shut down early but what is normally a 50-minute commute home took me over 3 hours as there were so many roads shut down and blocked due to the flooding. It was a PITA with all the detours but would much rather be inconvenienced and delayed getting home than drown and not get home at all (or ruin my car). I did see a few people driving around road blocks and most, bigger pickups and SUV’s, got through OK but then I did see one car that came very close to being swept off the road and into the adjacent creek. To me, not worth the risk to me and to anyone who has to put their lives at risk to come to my rescue. I turned around.
Driver Ignores Barriers and Drives into Flooded Road—Watch What Happens
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