This system has been stalled over SE LA and Acadiana parishes for the past 10+ hours. Lot of road and school closures. Some areas have received 8-15" of rain already and the forecast has no predictable end in sight.
Not even a good day for ducks.
Robert Hill, post: 385955, member: 378 wrote: Some areas have received 8-15" of rain already and the forecast has no predictable end in sight.
That's darn near a whole year's worth where I live.
Robert Hill, post: 385955, member: 378 wrote: This system has been stalled over SE LA and Acadiana parishes for the past 10+ hours. Lot of road and school closures. Some areas have received 8-15" of rain already and the forecast has no predictable end in sight.
Not even a good day for ducks.
Be safe my friend! Hopefully you are on a hill.
No kidding. Just looked at radar and folks from Opelousas to Baton Rouge are gonna need a good boat. Be smart and stay dry. Let us know whether lunch is a highball or lowball glass.
Been raining for 14 hours,
3 big power surges accompanied with kabooms in the last hour but so far no loss of power.
They are saying the rain will continue until Tuesday.
All the usual roads and places will be flooded.
Feel bad for folks that flooded this past spring.
Jimmy Cleveland, post: 385973, member: 91 wrote: Be safe my friend! Hopefully you are on a hill.
Yep 25+ft msl here. So should have no problem : )
Stay dry, and stay safe.
Angelo
I live on the down stream side of this mess.
15 hrs of rain and we are getting a break, But this system is still stalled and drifted a little to the west.
Lamon's area and Acadiana parishes still getting soaked plus Baton Rouge.
LSU cancelled classes early this morning.
Here is the current radar that is 51/2 hours later than the first screen shot I posted.
We are at 104 degrees, a cold front coming in, thunderclouds forming, a predicted high of 83 tomorrow, and I'm still trying to think of a way to get some of ya'll rain to come this way. We are still so dry from the last few years, the rain we got this spring fell too fast and too close together to soak in. Hoping ya stay dry, your electric stays on, and you can get the BBQ to stay lit!
[USER=11913]@Monte[/USER]
I was trying to explain to a fellow today about the concept of flash floods and how they work. He couldn't get his head around the idea that a bridge might set around with no water under it for years and then one day a giant ball of water comes rolling down the stream bed, under (and into) the bridge and then disappears on downstream within a few minutes.
Aloha, Robert: Be safe!
[USER=50]@Holy Cow[/USER]
Here is a video I found for your friend.
We have bridges around here that may be over 20' higher than the water, but every one in awhile, the water will still cross the road. Here, the rain just falls so fast the dry ground cannot soak it up, so it just runs off. Good for our lakes. The lake by the office was officially dry (Just mud, no water) and 1 rain in the watershed ran it over the spillway about 4 years back. Not only that, but I was told that a state record catfish was caught from that lake 2 days later.
We get 15" rain here all the time, sometimes when it really rains hard, the drops can be as close as 10". I have even seen it run into a puddle on the mountain.
God Speed and bless you guys. I can't even imagine that.
M
Mark, do you guys get the rain that soaks you through then quits before you can get the truck window rolled up?
Still spinning around over Acafiana.
I hope [USER=553]@Lamon Miller[/USER] is doing ok. I know that he posted that he lives along a bayou.
I keep bringing up because I have never seen a weather system like this in all my years here. Rain totals in some areas are way over 20"s. You can see from my screenshots of yesterday and this morning that nothing has weakened.
Usually, we get rains like this in April/May when a system trains in from tha Gulf with a band of storms. Worst ever, I have been in lasted two days.
But this is a low pressure system that keeps spinning and remains stationary while being fed moisture from the Gulf.
Like a small tropical storm trying to form over land. Very odd.
All events are cancelled here this weekend or have been moved indoors.
I hope the folks west of us get a break from the rain.
Up higher in the continent I've seen what the weather fellas call a "cut-off low". A low pressure system that drifts in between an upper and lower jet stream and just kind of sits there. Difference being the available moisture at the 4 corners is quite a bit different than your Gulf Coast. I remember one year (2000?) where something similar washed Houston out pretty good. But like you said, I've never seen one quite like this one. The news clips I've seen are heart-breaking. People in other parts of the country don't understand how much water there can be with a system dumping 2" per hour over an extended period.
"Good luck" doesn't cut it anymore. It's time to start saying prayers for the folks down there.
Glad you are safe.
[SARCASM]Okay, I got out early this morning and washed the truck and started the grill. It seems to be working. [/SARCASM] 🙂
My house is safe but lost my office in Denham Springs. Got our servers out and some equipment. Rest of the office will be a total loss. Lived here for 45 years. Never seen anything like this.
