Louisiana Printers sound off.

[Dottonedan]

Hello Louisiana printers.


How are all of you fairing out?  Let us know what your needs are if any. Give us an update as to what is going on in your shop with this flood. Waters receding?


I know we have Giraphic Prints is right in Baton Rouge, and a few others. I think Gilligan is close by. Who else?

[brandon]

New Orleans here. We are well. Feel sorry for the print shops up north of us. And west. GSG in Baton Rouge was under 3 feet of water.

[Dottonedan]

Brandon,


Great to hear you were not affected heavily.  Did you get part of that rain?  Giraphic Prints is right in it.

[cclaud3]

Shop made it and the house barely did-less than 1 foot from front door. We got lucky. My house is about 2 miles from GSG. Family 1 mile away took 2 feet of water.

[brandon]

We got a good amount of rain and a leak along with it but we are fine. Now just have to get past hurricane season!

[tonypep]

Here to help!

[Gilligan]

Yep... we are good as well.

Mom's houses ended up with 6" of water in them... getting that all cleaned up, but extremely minor compared to others.

All of my properties and businesses fared well.

My bee keeping partner took about a foot of water in his house and lost 70% of his bee hives, but we will bounce back.

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

Good to hear from you, Kevin...that you guys did okay.

I had read there were approximately 6.9  t  T   T.....TRILLION gallons that fell in that storm, and I didn't believe it. A BILLION of anything is a nearly unthinkable number and multiply that by 1000.

!!!!!!

Okay.

So I did some math, and my doubting was WRONGO!

So many places were flooded that just never flood, that even people that can afford flood insurance don't bother with it! Awful awful awful.

Anyhow, I too have been wondering how my Louisiana acquaintances from this board have fared.  My heart goes out to the folks that got whacked, and I certainly echo the sentiments above.


Stan



(P.S. if you'd like to see the math: There are 7.48 gallons in cubic foot and 748 gallons in one hundred (100) cubic feet (hcf). In order to express large volumes of water use, this water use is expressed in acre feet numbers. One acre foot equals 43,560 cubic feet or 435.6 hundred cubic feet and is equivalent to 325,851 gallons. [cut and pasted from google]  For those who don't know a mile has 640 acres so multiply 325,851 gallons by 640 and you discover that only 1 (ONE!) measly, square mile with 12 inches of rain is over 1/5 of a  BILLION gallons...and lots of places in the hardest hit areas got 2 FEET! It's an unimaginable amount of water to fall from the sky in such a concentrated area. So yeah, I believe nearly 7 Trillion gallons fell and it wasn't even a hurricane. It's 12" X 182 miles X 182 miles if I figured right.)

[Gilligan]

A friend of mine's family home which flooded so often that they have a 4' levy around it AND they built an elevated 2 bedroom house on a tennis court in the back yard so they didn't have to move next time they got flooded out.   They didn't have flood insurance. :/

I mean, I feel bad for them... but come on!  You own water pumps because your place floods so often... flood insurance is NOT something you skip on!

My mother's house was supposed to be built 2" higher which would have put it above of the flood plane and she would NOT have had flood insurance.  But the builder screwed up and they ended up in the flood area... so she had to have it.  That's how unlikely it was to flood there.

Again, we were lucky.

It really only poured down hard the first 5 or so hours (while everyone was sleeping).  Many woke up to put their feet in water in their houses.  Then it just was a steady rain for the next like 48 hours.