Stay safe guys and gals, our prayers and thoughts are with y'all! Butch and the two Mike's plus Safarikid and others.

Just talked to Roscoe down Meraux, it don’t look good
I told him, Montana is always open for some time if he needs to get out

Milan, don't encourage them.

Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico and especially Colorado barely survived the exodus from Cyclone Katrina in New Orleans years ago.

I never seen so many rebel flags in my life for the first year or two back home in Wyoming and Montana until the -30 and -100 windchill finally got rid of most of them.

Plenty of room in California, and I heard Detroit and Chicago have some new housing developments going up.

What Russell said. Good luck and may God bless and protect you and yours.

Russell nailed it. We all need to keep them in our thoughts and prayers. It’s going to be a rough period down there, especially the next week.

Y’all be safe, get as far inland and as high as you can.

BWW:

What makes you think WE "almost"
survived that influx???

Whole lot of 'em still here yet.

George

Yes, please know that our thoughts and well wishes are with you.

Be safe, friends. This is the real thing.

To my friends on the east side of the Sabine, hope everyone is staying safe and dry.

Well Baton Rouge escaped. We are having some thunderstorms and had some gusts to I guess 40 during the night. Thanks for the prayers, Lake Charles and south of there got pounded.

Hard to determine so far as the Weather Channel blows even a small rain shower out of all proportions, but looks like LA did better than the talking heads and "experts" predicted, however, Lake Charles looks like it got hammered.

Stay Safe

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Milan, don't encourage them.

Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico and especially Colorado barely survived the exodus from Cyclone Katrina in New Orleans years ago.

I never seen so many rebel flags in my life for the first year or two back home in Wyoming and Montana until the -30 and -100 windchill finally got rid of most of them.

Plenty of room in California, and I heard Detroit and Chicago have some new housing developments going up.

What a dick attitude towards our fellow sportsmen... aren't you the guy who moves every year or so? Maybe your neighbors are none too excited about you showing up.

The aftermath of a hurricane is not fun. Hope everyone down there stays safe and has minimal property damage. My thoughts and prayers are with all of you.

Thanks for the well wishes guys. My Lafayette home has no damage just lost power because neighbors tree fell on the line. Crew is there now getting us up and running.
I rode the storm out at my farm on the far East side of Avoyelles parish. We dodged a big bullet. Winds never exceeded 40 and we only got 4.3 “ rain. I rode the Ranger to the back to look at Soybeans and sugarcane and both crops were still upright and appear in good shape. We had been in a dry spell and they actually needed some rain. Also, checked my duck pond to see if the rice was still standing, yep gonna be pretty.

So we are back to our normal routine. Ate Gumbo for lunch, cooking a big pot of black eyed peas with Tasso and smoked deer sausage. My son in law is grilling some fresh grouper he caught at Venice, LA . Thinking about pouring a Bloody Mary. The sun is shining and wind is slowly letting up.

God is good.

Cheers

E Texas just got a little scratch.
About 1000 out of power (Lufkin) at 9:00 am this morning.
Louisiana took the brunt.

The coastal area in SW LA took a shellacking. My brother in law’s camp at Calcasieu Lake is probably gone. It wasn’t lifted up to fema standards. My coastal duck hunting buddies probably had a lot of damage to their camps if they are still there. Then there’s the damage to the duck feed. Salt water tidal surge kills the widgeon grass in the marsh, a favorite of the ducks. Those ducks will end up going North to the rice fields.

Pretty much a repeat of Rita.

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Milan, don't encourage them.

Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico and especially Colorado barely survived the exodus from Cyclone Katrina in New Orleans years ago.

I never seen so many rebel flags in my life for the first year or two back home in Wyoming and Montana until the -30 and -100 windchill finally got rid of most of them.

Plenty of room in California, and I heard Detroit and Chicago have some new housing developments going up.

What a dick attitude towards our fellow sportsmen... aren't you the guy who moves every year or so? Maybe your neighbors are none too excited about you showing up.

I have lived in North and Central Florida multiple times while on active duty. I do not understand why someone would choose to live there because of the hurricanes.

The effects of a huge bump in population anywhere suck.

Dick or not, we have too many people as it is.

Wyoming got about 25-30,000 people. If you had a 5 percent increase in population in your state you wouldn't be happy.

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have lived in North and Central Florida multiple times while on active duty. I do not understand why someone would choose to live there because of the hurricanes.

The effects of a huge bump in population anywhere suck.

Dick or not, we have too many people as it is.

Wyoming got about 25-30,000 people. If you had a 5 percent increase in population in your state you wouldn't be happy.

Uh... Wyoming's population is around 600,000. And you're still a dick. I appreciate your service, but you seem to be a blowhard and a dick. Just my opinion of course.

And Texas has plenty of refugees moving in from other states.

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Wyoming got about 25-30,000 people. If you had a 5 percent increase in population in your state you wouldn't be happy.

25,000? I don't think so. Rebel Flags? Yeah, I bet all the poor black folks who were disproportionately replaced were flying them right and left.


Katrina Diaspora

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Originally posted by Opus1:
Hard to determine so far as the Weather Channel blows even a small rain shower out of all proportions, but looks like LA did better than the talking heads and "experts" predicted, however, Lake Charles looks like it got hammered.

Stay Safe

That's why it's called a prediction of a location and a worst case scenario rather than a fact.
Besides the prediction was Lake Charles.

It was a close call for us, but everything turned out fine. My home and business sustained virtually no damage and stayed dry.

Cameron, west side of Vermilion, and Calcasieu parishes took the brunt of the storm. Lake Charles is the largest city in the area and saw wind speeds of over 130 mph. Lots of damage in that area.

Our thoughts and prayers are with them.

Hurricane Alicia hit a few days after I arrived at Houston.

It was not very pleasant.

That's great news Mike. I was worried about you and your family, thanks for the update.

I know the feeling of relief first hand that a person gets when realizing that you didn't suffer loss of life or severe property damage from a hurricane.

Saeed,

No hurricane is pleasant. I've lived on the Texas Gulf Coast my entire life and have been through a lot of them. Alicia was back in 1983. Houston skated this one, but our friends in Louisiana and far East Texas got hit. I wish them the best.

I represent insurance carriers and we anticipate a lot of claims. I know my clients' goal is to process these claims appropriately and as soon as possible. People need to understand that volume of claims slows down the process. The state Departments of Insurance have recognized that and make allowances. The folks that lawyer up immediately just delay the processing of their claims and have to share their recovery with a lawyer and/or a public adjuster.