When I lived on Bayuo Derbonne in southern Natchitoches pariah, I learned about flatland flooding. Three days of rain and the creeks, sloughs and bayous are full. Two days later, the water comes down from the hills with no place to go and all the creeks jump their banks.
When I lived on the bayou, it was simple luck that my house never flooded. The old man who built it knew that floods happen and built the house on a tiny elevation that stayed dry. There were several times when we were flooded in, but the house stayed dry.
That's what is happening in Avoyelles parish right now. Moreauville, Simmesport, Cottonport are all going under. The old folks, who knew where the high spots are, built on those high spots. The younger folks bought a piece of land and built a house may not have noticed that slight elevation and built their house in a place that floods once every ten years. Worse yet, urban sprawl changes the way that water flows. New rads, new shopping centers, new parking lots move water in new ways.
I feel empathy for those folks because I have been there.
2 comments:
Yep, that sucks... Sorry to hear about it, but not surprised in this day and age.
Well...Glad you're ok, We dodged the main part of the storm, but the outskirts of it dumped about 6 inches in an hour or so. Fortunately, the drainage systems kept up with it.. Houston and Beaumont weren't quite so lucky. They got schwacked pretty hard.
juvat
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