:shock: Nothing new! And I can't post because I've been fighting flood water for three days! When I posted this I had gotten Net service back one hour previously. If you'll look to the right of my mailbox there's a stake showing where the highway department put a 30" culvert/drainpipe years ago so as to drain ditch or water from my yard to the east side of the highway to the lake across the road from where I took this photo. The lake got higher than I've ever seen it previously and with 24" of rainfall over 2 1/2 days....that's understandable! Water did not get into my quarters as my slab is higher than my driveway and once it gets to a certain level it drains across the driveway and goes back west toward my airstrip. As an added precaution the Start, La. Volunteer Fire Department came out on their own and ran poly pipe all the way around my home. My hats off to all those guys!
Untitled by Rick Mulhern, on Flickr
Normal pool stage for the lake water would be at the base of the cypress trees you can see in this photo:
Untitled by Rick Mulhern, on Flickr
My grandmother told me long ago that this area did not go under during the great flood of 1927 and if it were not for the drain pipe under the highway I wouldn't have had this problem! When it dries up I'll have a vertical flood plate put over that pipe with a good rubber seal and that'll solve the problem! I'm 17 miles southeast of Monroe, La. and probably a couple thousand folks over there are without their homes today!
Normal pool stage for the lake water would be at the base of the cypress trees you can see in this photo:
My grandmother told me long ago that this area did not go under during the great flood of 1927 and if it were not for the drain pipe under the highway I wouldn't have had this problem! When it dries up I'll have a vertical flood plate put over that pipe with a good rubber seal and that'll solve the problem! I'm 17 miles southeast of Monroe, La. and probably a couple thousand folks over there are without their homes today!
