CajunMama

[deb_in_nc]

Forgive my feeble brain,but what happened on Jan. 20, 1993?

Debbie

[CajunMama]

We had 14" of rain in 24 hours! A cool front stalled between Lake Charles and Lafayette. We had moved into our home 6 months before, survived Hurricane Andrew and then this darn rainstorm dumped all this rain and we got 6" of water in our house. WITH NO FLOOD INSURANCE and we're not in a flood zone.

By the time we got to the house, the fire department was evacuating the neighborhood - the electricity had never kicked off! They brought me to my house to get my pets, stepped off the truck into 3 feet of water in the street!

We were blessed and did not lose anything. We even saved the carpet. FEMA helped us out alot also. Two of my neighbors got $600 & $900 from FEMA and I received $3400! But I had every receipt from flood expenses and they showed I did everything in my power to save what I had.

The moral of this story is "You live south of I-10, flood zone or not, get flood insurance!"

[weatherlover427]

Goodness, glad you're OK though!

[PTrackerLA]

Cajunmama, I remember that event quite well. I believe the Vermilion river got up to 15.86" which is the "recent" record. I've heard that the river was up around 24 feet with a tropical system in the early 1900's...I can't even imagine what would happen if that occured again!

[CajunMama]

I live near Comeaux High School and the Ile des Cannes Coulee. Not in Quail Hollow but near Beaullieu Park. The city refuses to do anything and the Army Corps of Engineers have been doing a study on flood relief in our area for the last 8 years. Stupid, Stupid!

PT, at a ACE meeting I told the ACE what they could do with their study! I told them to take the $$ they were wasting on the study, take the $$ that will be spent to keep us from flooding, and the future $$'s that will have to be spent on the people who will flood now that we won't, and DREDGE THE VERMILION RIVER. (that's what they say the problem is) I made the front page of The Advertiser (local newspaper) for that!

[PTrackerLA]

I believe they dredged parts of the Vermilion a few years ago and they said it helped houses that flooded at 15 feet not flood. But I agree, they need to dredge all of the river or re-route the runoff. You just can't have all of the surrounding area's runoff drain into that little bayou.

[vbhoutex]

Amen to having the flood insurance CM!!! I live 2 miles N of I10 in Houston, am not in a flood zone and I used my flood insurance last year!!! The 350 dollars or so is well worth the peace of mind!! You lucked out with the FEMA group!!

[BreinLa]

Oh do I remember that well, someone with a flat boat moving people from Kathy's subdivision across the Comeaux football practice field over to our house cause we were high and dry. That's when I knew my street was on the highest point of our Subdivision. Also someone who lived across the street from Kathy, I don't even remember her name, worked for my brother and sister in law at the Times stored some of her stuff in our game room so she could save it.