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Posted on 8/14/25 at 9:31 am to TygerTyger
Took me about 30 minutes to pull up the laminate in my living room - most was already buckled so once we got the furniture and rug (that was awful - as bad as the carpet) out of there it was a piece of cake. When we rebuilt I was adamant about no carpet. We have laminate everywhere except where the tiles were now.
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Posted on 8/14/25 at 9:36 am to The Boat
Sometime on 13th for me
Live in Old Jeff. My house didnt flood in 83 so wasnt concerned. Was actually headed to the Londoner for opening day of the EPL season and neighbor knocked on door saying we should get out
Spent next few hours packing car and getting things off ground
Then 3? Days later could finally get back to see the damage of 4 feet of water
We were out of the house for 292 days
Live in Old Jeff. My house didnt flood in 83 so wasnt concerned. Was actually headed to the Londoner for opening day of the EPL season and neighbor knocked on door saying we should get out
Spent next few hours packing car and getting things off ground
Then 3? Days later could finally get back to see the damage of 4 feet of water
We were out of the house for 292 days
Posted on 8/14/25 at 9:41 am to ell_13
That thread is one hell of a read.
Honestly the worst brought out the best in a lot of us. People who normally sniped at each other doing whatever they could to help and assist.
Truly a testament to our better angels in trying times.
Honestly the worst brought out the best in a lot of us. People who normally sniped at each other doing whatever they could to help and assist.
Truly a testament to our better angels in trying times.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 9:49 am to fr33manator
I woke up at like 7am with 3 inches of water in the house and my phone was charging on the carpet completely submerged. No idea how it still worked. I had just installed a new washing machine the night before and thought I'd fricked up bad.
Then I took a look outside and saw both cars hoods underwater.
Ended up getting 4.5 ft. When I called into work in Saturday morning my manager thought I was bullshittin to get outta work, true story
Then I took a look outside and saw both cars hoods underwater.
Ended up getting 4.5 ft. When I called into work in Saturday morning my manager thought I was bullshittin to get outta work, true story
Posted on 8/14/25 at 9:49 am to lagniappe09
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I still think that wall divider on I-12 kept water on the North side of I-12
And Hwy 22 between the Laurel Ridge levee and Diversion Canal.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 10:06 am to jiffyjohnson
Wife's car was less than a month old. Could not get it out in time. Ended up sitting in the garage and flooded. The following week when the mail finally ran we got her plates in the mail. I think the week after that the insurance company ended up getting a tow truck in our area to pick up her car.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 10:14 am to lsuchip30
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Spending an entire day cutting carpet and padding into 4'x4' squares to take out to the curb is something that I will never do again.
Yeah that kind of work sucked. And trying to get the waterlogged matresses out to the road was brutal. I finally took out a SawsAll and cut them into pieces.
You guys mentioning the fridges would have lost your shite if you smelled the fridges after Katrina. They had been baking in the heat from 2 to 6 weeks where I helped out.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 10:46 am to The Boat
On the flood map, lower right corner, the larger red dot in the middle of the large dark area, below the word old Jefferson, that’s the neighborhood I live in. An island. Required flood insurance, in a flood zone and didn’t flood. Still can’t believe it.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 11:01 am to freshtigerbait
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smell of the filthy water sitting in someones house
It's a very different smell, that's for sure.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 11:12 am to The Boat
That was one of the best, and most tragic threads this place has ever produced.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 11:16 am to The Boat
Didn't flood thank goodness, but Denham Springs & area in future is in trouble with all the land cleared for the numerous subdivisions currently under development. All the short-sighted parish sees is tax revenues.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 11:25 am to The Boat
We lived in Central in 2016, on what had always been high ground. I remember looking at the radar on the morning of the 12th and telling my husband that the system wasn’t moving. I recommended that we go to the store for some essentials that afternoon, which we did. On the way back we had two inches of flood water on our street already.
The next day we were surrounded by water, no way out. Our ditch was overflowing, and across the street I couldn’t see our neighbor’s yard, but our house was in no danger thanks to the road which kept the water away from us.
We didn’t get out until Monday. Thankfully 90% of our friends and family weren’t flooded, but I had two friends and a cousin who lost everything. My husband helped a friend’s mil by redoing the bottom four feet of her home; thankfully it was small. It took several weeks.
Our yard guy had to borrow our boat to get his wife and her cats out of their trailer in the Shenandoah area; his trailer was a total loss.
The next day we were surrounded by water, no way out. Our ditch was overflowing, and across the street I couldn’t see our neighbor’s yard, but our house was in no danger thanks to the road which kept the water away from us.
We didn’t get out until Monday. Thankfully 90% of our friends and family weren’t flooded, but I had two friends and a cousin who lost everything. My husband helped a friend’s mil by redoing the bottom four feet of her home; thankfully it was small. It took several weeks.
Our yard guy had to borrow our boat to get his wife and her cats out of their trailer in the Shenandoah area; his trailer was a total loss.
This post was edited on 8/14/25 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 8/14/25 at 11:26 am to The Boat
I lost 90% of everything I owned and was actually living in Phoenix, AZ at the time. Unlucky me had just relocated for a new job on last weekend of July and almost everything I owned was sitting in the Atlas Van-lines warehouse on S. Choctaw waiting for the long haul truck to pick it up. It was actually scheduled to leave same day storm first hit, but driver called out because the weather was coming in. Warehouse took 6 ft of water and they bulldozed everything in it afterwards. I got 6$ per lb. compensation. I know others had it worse and lost more than material things and I sympathize...but man that shite still stings. 
Posted on 8/14/25 at 12:09 pm to The Boat
For those of you who lost your home with no flood insurance, did you pay off your remaining mortgage or said eff it, I'm not paying the rest?
Posted on 8/14/25 at 12:38 pm to The Boat
We didn't have a puddle in the driveway.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 12:39 pm to 4x4tiger
Rebuilt with the help of fema, savings, friends. Sold 18 months later. SBA tried to frick me. I applied for the loan but didn’t take it once it was apparent that I couldn’t move out until it was paid off. We didn’t want to stay that long. Starter home. However, when it came time for any grant money or other help, the sba loan amount that I was approved for counted against me as though I had taken the full amount. Garrett Graves fought hard to fix that error in the law. He actually called me a few times to discuss my personal experience.
Posted on 8/14/25 at 12:46 pm to boxcarbarney
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But that Cajun Navy guy frustrated the hell out of us.
Give him a break. He was busy counting donation money or something. Or putting out that he needed donations. Who got time for boats ?
Posted on 8/14/25 at 2:34 pm to LSUEEAlum
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On the flood map, lower right corner, the larger red dot in the middle of the large dark area, below the word old Jefferson, that’s the neighborhood I live in. An island. Required flood insurance, in a flood zone and didn’t flood. Still can’t believe it.
What are the boundary roads? Curious to look it up
Posted on 8/14/25 at 2:40 pm to The Boat
It may have been Saturday, but I was driving Eastbound on I-12 in a U-Haul moving from BR. Somewhere before Holden it seemed like the water on the road was getting high enough that I wouldn’t have tried to go through it in a normal sedan.
It was completely clear by the LA/MS state line, which felt bizarre.
It was completely clear by the LA/MS state line, which felt bizarre.
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