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[sdm111]

Sdm I hope you're able to keep your fowl safe, there's a heck of a lot of water coming.

thank God I have bayou lacombe on one side, bayou liberty on the other side and the marsh to the south. So all that water coming hits the bayous then it opens to the marsh and lake ponchatrain where's its sucked up. My problems come when we get a strong south wind and it pushes the lake water up and over the bayous then I flood. Did go to the shop today towards baton rouge to help put paperwork and stuff on tables and stuff. Got about 2' in the shop in March.

Short answer myself my family and my fowl are all safe

 

[flypen]

thank God I have bayou lacombe on one side, bayou liberty on the other side and the marsh to the south. So all that water coming hits the bayous then it opens to the marsh and lake ponchatrain where's its sucked up. My problems come when we get a strong south wind and it pushes the lake water up and over the bayous then I flood. Did go to the shop today towards baton rouge to help put paperwork and stuff on tables and stuff. Got about 2' in the shop in March.

Short answer myself my family and my fowl are all safe

Awesome! That's good to hear.

 

[sdm111]

You know it's something when the first thing done around here when bad weather's coming is to unstrap the boats from the trailers and tie them to trees just in case

 

[sdm111]

It's a sad day for sure. Thoughts and prayers for all affected

x10

 

[sdm111]

Awesome! That's good to hear.

thanks

 

[centrarchid]

Are you concerned about ground saturation issues?

 

[sdm111]

Are you concerned about ground saturation issues?

now that I do have cause we so low being like literally 18 or so inches above sea level the ground takes a while to dry up. Im about 1/4 mile through the woods from a giant marsh land that obviously stays wet. So yeah I'm used to ground saturation. I can deal with that its the flash flooding with whitecaps that sucks. It's really unbelievable how fast water can come up like within minutes no time to do nothing and u can't just run to higher ground cause there ain't none.
But we that live here understand the risk but man the pros outweigh the cons

 

[centrarchid]

Are you where storm surges can an issue like from hurricanes? 18" freeboard does inspire happy thoughts.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Cooper's hawk was on the ground chasing birds today. I saw em scatter from the couch and ran out screaming. He took off but he'll be back. Chicken sh*t hasn't been back today though. Don't know why I'm just sitting out here trying to get a picture of him

 

[sdm111]

Yeah depends on how a hurricane comes in if it comes it to my west and the bands wrap from south to north over me yes bad storm surge from the lake. On the flip side if it comes in to my east just wind damage the surge is pushed south towards the new Orleans metro area. And if it comes straight up over me then first the wind blows to the west then the eye comes over then the wind blows to the east and with saturated ground that's when the trees uproot and start falling.

Sounds weird but after a hurricane is over its soo still and refreshing like it blew the old air out and fresh air in