There is a Reason...

There is definitely are reason I don't get my hopes up on things.  This time it is to leaving for Oklahoma to look for a house...

You know the great Louisiana flood news going on right now?  Look at the news and MAPS... do you see Morgan City, Louisiana?  That little city on the very south part of Louisiana?  It is right where the green, purple and blue meet at the bottom of that map.  Yeppers, that is where we are right now.  Our daughter lives in an area 3 blocks from a lake and they are predicting 0-15 feet of water in her subdivision.  Large spread isn't there?  

We really have no idea what to expect, but we are taking precautions to get her family and both their things and our out of harms way.  Steve called a moving company in for our things, we will know today when they are coming to pick our household goods up.  There is an emergency order in for us so they should be here this week.  Cross your fingers!  They are going to put it into storage until we decide what to do with it - but for now, they are getting it the heck out of here, we hope.  Today we should know if they can do it...

We have been busy the last week - and I do have plenty of pictures to share, but I want to share only what is going on around us right now.

Sand bagging in Stephensville, just outside of Morgan City:

Right now the prediction is 0-10 feet of water above GROUND LEVEL - not above sea level.  Below is our daughter's subdivision.  It is surrounded by a levee, but as you can see it is a small one.  The HESCO baskets are dropped in a stack:

The National Guard (we have 16-18 men and women right now) pops them up and put rods in them to hold them side by side:

They carefully double check to be sure they had gotten all the rods in:

As they are doing that, a loader comes and adds sand/dirt to those bags already set up:

And hopefully all of this helps protect the homes in the city and particularly this low lying subdivision that is surrounded by water and has a lake at the back of it:

They have a lot of work to do:

And while they are doing that, we are packing and moving out of harm's way.  We only have 4-6 days to get ready!

We went to Baton Rouge on Saturday.  This is the Mississippi before any spillway is opened - and two weeks before a crest - with no further rain.  Those trees are not supposed to be under water:

But they are.

If you are interested in reading what they are concerned about happening, HERE is an article about the Morganza Spillway, the one they are going to open this weekend or early next week - and our levee system.  

Off to go to a town meeting.  If you don't mind, keep us in your thoughts and prayers.  This week will be crazy, moving stuff out of homes, getting a moving company in to get our things and everyone getting out of the way of the water they are warning us about.  Thank God for our Coast Guard, National Guard and all the officials that are trying to keep us updated and safe.  What would we do without them?

We would be sitting ducks like those in the 'olden days' as our granddaughter calls it.  We would be clueless as to what was about to happen.  Thank God for technology that lets us know about what can be expected.

Like water rising and displacing a whole town... or many towns.

And many, many people getting killed.  Listen up folks!  Get the heck out of harms way - be safe rather than sorry.  It is better to err on the safe side than wish you had taken precautions.  Get busy!L