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To: BurbankKarl

That picture is from Laffite? That's weird..looked at it on a map..it's near a lake..Bayou Du Lac..but hard to figure where the water came from. (Unless the reporter made an error?)


773 posted on 09/24/2005 3:54:51 PM PDT by SE Mom
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To: SE Mom

Storm surge...


783 posted on 09/24/2005 4:01:17 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: SE Mom

That's surge. Lafite went under several hours ago. Now the surge has pushed about twice that far north.


826 posted on 09/24/2005 4:28:51 PM PDT by jeffers
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The flooding is in Laffite and Jean Laffite, both in Lower Jefferson Parish, south of New Orleans. Very low land on the bayou.

Here's a map. Jean Laffite's at the star:


836 posted on 09/24/2005 4:43:39 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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