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Dam Break bayou Lafourche ... EVACUATE HEBERT NOW!
NWSShreveport BNS News ^ | 3/13/16 | NWSShreveport BNS NEWS

Posted on 03/13/2016 7:42:38 PM PDT by Mechanicos



TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: dambreak; evacuate; hebert; hebertnotherbert; louisiana; warningherbert
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To: Charles Henrickson

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.


61 posted on 03/13/2016 9:38:14 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A; Zack Attack

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.


62 posted on 03/13/2016 9:40:51 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (I choose Cruz!)
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To: Grams A

“... 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....


63 posted on 03/13/2016 9:49:07 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: lee martell

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!


64 posted on 03/13/2016 10:39:37 PM PDT by chit*chat
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To: Elyse; lee martell; Kirkwood; SunkenCiv; Spunky; Mechanicos; All

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


65 posted on 03/13/2016 11:11:17 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Disambiguator

If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s gonna break.


I always liked that song too.


66 posted on 03/13/2016 11:12:41 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Kirkwood; Mechanicos; All

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


67 posted on 03/13/2016 11:14:02 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: chit*chat

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.


68 posted on 03/13/2016 11:30:06 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Mechanicos

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.


69 posted on 03/13/2016 11:45:17 PM PDT by daisy12
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To: doc maverick

See post #15!


70 posted on 03/14/2016 3:08:31 AM PDT by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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To: Mechanicos

Bayou Lafourche begins in Donaldsonville, La. A bayou is a tidal waterway that flows both directions. There is no dam on the bayou. SHISH!


71 posted on 03/14/2016 3:39:34 AM PDT by nanook (Thomas Jefferson was right.)
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To: 21twelve

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


72 posted on 03/14/2016 4:18:40 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftism is the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: annalex

Greetings to you - and Godspeed! From a Protestant admirer.


73 posted on 03/14/2016 8:16:11 AM PDT by tjd1454
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To: doc maverick

Is the chaos beginning?


74 posted on 03/14/2016 8:17:48 AM PDT by tjd1454
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To: txrefugee

Amen!


75 posted on 03/14/2016 8:18:51 AM PDT by tjd1454
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To: Disambiguator

And if the levee breaks, we’ll have no place to stay.


76 posted on 03/14/2016 12:19:42 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: tjd1454

And to you. God bless.


77 posted on 03/14/2016 4:19:06 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Well, excuse me. It is Hebert. Go bitch at the one that posted it


78 posted on 03/14/2016 6:47:01 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Figment

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.


79 posted on 03/14/2016 8:53:29 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: 21twelve
I recall driving on a country road in NJ that I took to work every day. Early morning, heavy rain, I got about 300 feet from the one lane bridge and started to head down. hard to see, and then I noticed ponding water on the road so I slowed down a bit. Things just seemed out of sorts and I stopped just to try to confirm that the water wasn’t all that deep ahead of me. I recall being really out of sorts - things didn’t seem quite right but I couldn’t put a handle on it.

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.

Turn Around Don't Drown PSA

Driver Ignores Barriers and Drives into Flooded Road—Watch What Happens

Woman rescued after driving car into water in DeSoto County

80 posted on 03/15/2016 5:20:45 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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