Never would of thought I would of thought of seeing airboat helping people out there house my mothering in lawlad and sister in law lost every thing many people of the carencro area lost everything please pray for them god bless

a buddy of mine has 4-5 inches of water in his house. prayers sent for everyone there.

Thanks man mother inlaw had 3 feet, very terrible

Carencro has struggled with terrible drainage for years. The current full time Mayor, ***** Brassesux, has done little to improve drainage. It's an ebarrasment and a shame. It's too late to help those who have suffered loss today, maybe the disaster will force him to address the problem like he should have long ago,

Couldn't say it better about 50% of the problem is trashing the drainage system you wouldn't beleave what they throw in there

So will insurance cover any of the damage or do you have to have flood insurance?

You would have to have flood insurance homeowners won't cover it. So lots of people didn't have flood insurance because it's not a flood zone

Man that's a bad deal

My family house is made out of cypress probly about 100 years oldbut the brand new 250000 houses are full of water makes me sick

I tried to tell em that the water wasent rising it was falling. They didn't go for it

I have an Acadian style house 3' off the ground but my shop had 3" of water in it. It was a sad thing to see so many people get flooded just from a couple hours of rain.

My wife called me and said the water was up to my shop doors so I headed home.
This is when I got on my road.


This is from my front porch swing!!


I have talked to a lot of old people who have been around here all their lives and they say they have never seen water like this. All I can say is this must be a 100 year storm!

I have not seen this much water ever. I had water over the road where I live. It NEVER floods here. At work yesterday here in Arnaudville, our parking lot had 8-10" of water that stayed for about 3-4 hours until the rain had a break and gave it time to drain. One of our secretaries had about 6-8" before water came into her mobile home that was 2'+ elevated. Like I said Area's i have never seen flood EVER had water. I went through about 1.5-2' deep water on Cresswell lane Yesterday evening. I havent seen this shit before.

Just so you guys know..... When you build a House DIRT is cheap. Build your pad 1' higher than your nearest highway and then pour your slab on top of that. My mobile home was required to have a pad, and Im glad. Even with 5-6" of water flowing through my yard the underneath of mine is dry. Simple things like this help stop future issues.

I hope everyone the best of luck.

Everyone should have flood insurance, it's not really that expensive, it can flood anywhere on earth. I feel bad for those that don't. I once had 2ft. All the way up in my attic.

I live 6ft. Plus below sea level and it is cheap compared to gutting your house....trust me I know

That same thing happened in Houma back in April 2010. So much rain fell the pumps and drainage couldn't keep up.

Tough deal for sure.

Hate to see this happen to anyone. Having been through multiple floods, I will always carry flood insurance no matter the location or elevation of property. Although you may never need it more than once in a lifetime, if at all, you'll be glad you did. It's mandatory where I live, but I would carry it nonetheless and recommend the same to everone.

carencro volunteer fire dept has a flat with no #'s and a prodrive. good to know im not the only one without #'s

My uncle sent me some pictures he took from the boat. Seems pretty bad, y'all are in my prayers.

same thing happened in Youngsville/Couteau 10 years ago. Tropical storm Alison dumped over 12" in a few hours. Lots of people were stuck at our office over night. When I left, I hit several spots where my truck literally floated to the opposite lane.

I wonder if they are going to re draw the flood maps again?? I am 2 feet above sealevel and required to have flood but if that water gets that high geeze might have to move up north.

They did draw not to long ago its nice to see so many people help out there I got off of work at 2 am and my washing machine and dryer has not stoped mostly kids and baby cloths that were in dresser draws. Trying to help out I much as we can

My uncle said he was riding around in his long tail picking people up. By the end of the trip he had 10 peoPle in his 14x48

true any place with 14 inches of rain would flood i seen one rain guage it was at 19 inches at my buddy house

That's what happened to Houston during Tropical Storm Allison...

Now all of our flood lines revolve around TSARP.org (Tropical Strom Allison Recovery Project). Insurance rates will increase, new flood lines were developed and areas in need of improvement were scrutinized.

I forget how many inches we had 20+ but I remember it just pouring and cruising flooded streets in the Jeep watching on the news all the stranded motorist & cars as the water just kept rising.

I pretty sure insurance is going to go up sh+t mine goes up every year.

I alrwady paid my flood insurance before they went up.

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Brad...you got those dehumidifiers running?

24 hours a day LOL


Thanks again man -- You dont know how much this means to me

Im just glad they are working. They sat up for a long time. I hope ya dry out soon.

They are makin water --- Im assuming they are working lol

I sure hope the parish has cleaned out all the drainage ditches, cause it looks like round 2 is coming yalls way tomorrow.

Home (waco, TX) registered 4.5-6 inches yesterday evening...