Posted by JerryS on August 28, 2016 at 14:18:32 from (98.80.106.16):
In Reply to: Am I hard hearted???? posted by JD Seller on August 28, 2016 at 08:43:12:
I'm thinking that "flood plain" refers to land that is historically affected by rising water from rivers and streams. In those cases I am not particularly sympathetic to those who build there.
What we are dealing with here in Louisiana is "falling water"---abnormal deluges of rainfall which of course produce rising water in any low spot. That can happen anywhere there is a topographical depression. Even in hilly areas far from any stream, there are low places at the bottoms of those hills. Pour 15 inches of rain there in just a few hours and you will have homes flooded that no ever considered would do so.
Much of south Louisiana is as a table-top, though not necessarily in a known flood plain. Again, drop 15, 20, 30 inches of rain on that tabletop overnight, the water can't flow away quick enough to avoid flooding. People living in even the slightest depression can become trapped in just a few minutes. Many of them awakened in the night to find water up their beds. By this time their vehicles are under water and the roads as well. They are trapped, and they may remain trapped for weeks because the water has no natural drain.
These huge rains are becoming more common here. I got 15 inches in two rains just last week. These were just pop-up summer storms, not part of a front or organized system---in othewords, not predicted. I remember one such storm in another city in north Louisiana about 30 years ago: 18 inches fell from midnight to 6 a.m. You bet there was flooding by daybreak. I never felt the people who got flooded then could be blamed for poor foresight.
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