Hi Jean. Thanks for asking.

Fortunately our home is on high ground. We can't go anywhere but the worst flooding this area had was in 1983. The water rose 19ft in the creek near us and covered the roads and bridge...but the level would have to reach 25 ft to cause back flow and another couple ft before it would enter our yard. I think we will stay nice and dry.

Sorry about your friend Susan

@Moonhowl Glad to hear you are safe and on high ground.

We are on high ground too. A day of hard rain and then another 2-3 inches on top will make our creek rise and cover the cement bridge leading down our road...so we get marooned. Folks are sure having a hard time in Louisiana this year.

It has its' challenges Rosie.

Thanks @rocklady Jean, looks like Hot Springs is in for some of this heavy rain.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/...

Thank you for your condolences - much appreciated. Tomorrow I go to church and get to talk to our friends who are also missing Mary....... and that's a lot of us.

Moonhowl said:It has its' challenges Rosie.

Thanks Jean, looks like Hot Springs is in for some of this heavy rain.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/...

@Moonhowl We only got a little over 2" yesterday and this morning -- sometimes the weather map looks a lot worse than it is and we sometimes laugh that the rain gets close to us and either goes to the north or south, completely around us. I am glad to get any amount now because it keeps down the temps somewhat.

Six people, three husbands and wives, were killed yesterday when their private plane went down near Tuscaloosa, AL. Four of them were young dentists and they all lived in Oxford, MS. They were returning from a dental seminar in FL. They left eight young children. How tragic.

How horribly sad

Well if that doesnt make you count your blessing..... so tragic is right..

Very tragic and so sad that those children have lost both parents.

That hurts my heart Ken

Just yesterday, I read about another plane accident. 6 folks from Indiana died in a plane accident while landing in Virginia. . A mom (age 53 - a nurse) and two children of her 4 children ( a 15 year old girl was a twin...her twin brother remained home for a sporting event) .and an 18 year old son. All three were en route to see her eldest son/their older brother graduate from VMA. There was another 15 year old girl on the plane - an exchange student from Germany who was stayimg with them. A happy day and a great adventure for all. The pilot and the owner of the plane perished also, The other two boys in the family are now parentless. Her husband/ their father passed away just a few months ago from medical causes.

When it rains it seems to pour.

Boy does it ever....

About 6.9 trillion gallons of rain pummeled Louisiana between August 8 and 14, according to meteorologist Ryan Maue.
That's enough to fill more than 10.4 million Olympic-size swimming pools.

Be glad you only got the edge of things, Jean @rocklady Here in Ascension parish, we got over 20 inches of rain from Thursday night through Saturday, and it has rained off and on everyday since with more rain chances predicted every day throughnext Thursday. It moved to the west of us, toward Lafayette and the Texas coast. But, a few million gallons are still flowing down through our parish and many more homes are going to be flooded.

Muddy Creek, about 1/4 mile down the road from me, horseshoes around and flows into Bayou Manchac. The Manchac runs east-west behind us and runs into The Amite River. The Amite hit flood stage,(46+ft) which pushed water back into the Manchac and Muddy Creek The Manchac, at Muddy Creek crested at 21.4 Ft. and flooded all but two properties, some with minor water incursion, and the rest with major damage. My home sits on the highest point at 21.8 Ft, with my nextdoor neighbor at 21.7 Ft.

We were well and truly smiled on.

I'm sad - our home is broken, and needs to be fixed (from the move 2 walls in dining / kitchen area, on each side, and the bathroom tub surround - no showers, good thing we have a bathtub.....) and we don't have electricity yet - waiting for electrician to hook us up. We have sewer and water, but it leaks.
At least we have internet, and 'TV/Phone is to be hooked up tomorrow.

Susan, I am sorry to hear about your home getting broken like that, I hope the moving company will cover the cost of the repairs.

They won't - saying it's old, and to be expected, especially with all the loaded in it.

Susan ... When you get it together, you will be happier in your new neighborhood. It will be worth the hassle just to be away from all of those toxic people.

It's a mess right now, but it's actually a blessing in the making ...

I know, Lyn, but it's disheartening to see the breaks in the walls of our home, have no electricity or gas, and the water is broken. We did clear a path to our bed and sleep in it last night, so that was a blessing.
Bob's gone out to see about a gas fitter, and an electrician to hook us up. It's quite cool this morning.... brrrrr
But the sun's up and it will get warmer, later.

Susan ... when I think of how those other people were slicing and dicing you daily and that kind of thing just cannot be fixed, this just seems minor to me because I know you can handle it. The best way I know is to slap a smile on your face and get 'er done. This can be fixed ...

Pushing all the negative thoughts and feelings out of the way leaves room for more happiness and joy because you have escaped from a miserable environment. Been there and done that ...

I have pushed those negatives away - I'm more prone to be a positive thinker than a negative one. I think that's why this shocked me so much - I'm not used to the negative vibes being pushed on me and it hurt and stunned me.
People have called me a "Pollyanna" and thought I was rather flip about negative stuff, but I'm not that - I'm a realist, but I prefer to be happy than the opposite.
We "bounce back" my Bob & I, rather well, and we're resourceful. I was just saying (after the move the other day) that even though there's breakage here, it's under our control, whereas when the tenants had possession of our home, they took over control. We have it back now, and we can handle most anything coming our way.
btw - wanna hear something funny? The "former friends" that moved away - she sent me a FB friend request...... now That shocked and stunned me - and I found myself saying firmly "no way". Of course she won't know what I said, but there's no way I'm going to re-friend her. I don't say anything about our tenants on FB, but I don't believe that we could go back to being friends with people who took the side of our tenants and helped them in oh-so-many ways to treat us so badly. That's water under the bridge, and not going to cross that bridge again.....!! It's sad to lose friends, but we didn't push them away, they did it to us. oh well...... moving on with life, eh?