These aren't April showers.
Got hailed on this past Saturday and thus should be ...
Be careful out there
I'm sure the 26 mile Lake Pontchartain Causeway is closed.
Looks like it is breaking up a little. I had a crew pulling a jon boat heading to Lake Charles this AM.
DSU says causeway only closed to motorcycles at this time.
That's insane
Everything supposed to be out if here by 11:30
Yeah, all that passed through southwest Louisiana this morning. It got pretty bad.
All that blew thru here friday, yesterday and last night.
Was without electricity from primetime Friday till mid morning Saturday.
One computer did not want to start up again, for some reason it started updating during the shutdown process and it never actually shutdown on its own and took till late Sunday night before it would boot completely.
Today the wind is blowing hard and electricity keeps bumping like it is going off again. I've unplugged the fridge until that gets resolved.
If not for the backup batteries on my computer systems, today would be a bust.
Looky there, we have sunshine, bet that don't last till nightfall.
Wow
Blew off the Huey P. In Elmwood.
it could have landed in the Mississippi if it was moving slower.
Still raining here as weather keeps training in from the Gulf nonstop.
Largest rain event that I was ever in was 22" one morning on May 3, 1978.
Quite a memorable day.
> Largest rain event that I was ever in was 22" one morning on May 3, 1978.
> Quite a memorable day.
I may have been down there somewhere close about that time. I worked for a utility engineering company from '77 to '80 and we had offices in Monroe and Lafayette and a couple of others scattered across the south. I was all the time TDY in some cheap motel.
This Okie thought he had seen heavy rain...until I got down there. A man could drown by standing outside and looking up! One of our jobs in the Atchafalaya lost a couple of D9s during a rainy week. They just flat sunk into the muck. One of them was still stuck a couple of months later when the job was done.
Never seen it rain like that anywhere else I've been.
Seems like my wife and I were down there exactly two years ago and the same thing happened.
Next time, we'll pick a different week......:-)
Cajun rain gauge
