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I hope all of you are okay!  

I submit this photo as "photo of the day".   

Courtesy of The Advocate: 

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The above Advocate photo is Bluebonnet Boulevard near the Mall of Louisiana.  Note the leaves on the grassy area to the right on the photo indicating the high water mark.   

There are areas where locals know to expect some street flooding in particularly heavy rain storms (Gov Mansion curve on I-110, Acadian under the railroad tracks, parts of Nicholson in Old South BR, etc.).    This underpass is actually pretty well drained most of the time.    The rivers were well below flood stage before yesterday's storms....but the rain came down so hard, so fast that it simply couldn't run off into the capital area drainage systems fast enough.    Creeks and canals very quickly reached capacity.     Even well drained streets and neighborhoods saw high water for at least a few hours yesterday.

Unlike 2016, yesterday's events were a textbook FLASH FLOOD - it materializes within a few hours and drains away even faster.   IMO these are particularly scary especially if you have kids that are old enough to drive and  may not understand that barely 15" of water in a street during a flash flood could have a current strong enough to float and even move a smaller car.     And you can quite easily not see a deep puddle at night in heavy rain and end up driving right into something like the above photo.     If you are having trouble driving around Baton Rouge, the local fire rescue team (usually equipped with Chevy Suburbans and Ferrera Ladder Trucks....not Mercury Outboards or Airboats) will have trouble reaching you quickly.    

12" of rain fell over south Baton Rouge and Ascension Parish yesterday, with some areas around Pecue and Highland near I-10 seeing almost 20" of rain in one day.    Radar indicated reports of 3 tornados in the Baton Rouge area were made, however tornadic damage and trained spotters only confirmed one tornado so far in Ascension Parish.     Similar problems were reported in Lake Charles, Lafayette, and New Orleans.    Lake Charles, in particular, was hit very hard with flooding and high winds.

Baton Rouge and Louisiana can do a lot better when it comes to flood protection - especially around cleaning up the canals and creeks, removing debris from catch basis and estuaries, and using concrete to line some of the draining basins and streams leading into Bayou Fountain, Hurricane Creek, Ward's Creek, and Bayou Manchac.      During those hurricanes last year, a lot of trees and debris ended up falling into the creeks and bayous, which slows their ability to drain.   

That being said, here is a list of cities that can handle 12-20" of rain in one day without at least some flooding and road closures: 

 

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Sadly somebody drown submerged/stuck in their car last night underneath that RR overpass. Another in a canal in WBR

Seemed almost like a Tropical Storm last night; someone in neighborhood said they got 13" rain on the gauge...Mesoscale System had a rotating head putting up 50mph wind gust from Tiger Stadium; Oak Hills Place and Millerville

Was going to Post this on Louisiana Weather thread

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10 hours ago, richyb83 said:

Sadly somebody drown submerged/stuck in their car last night underneath that RR overpass. Another in a canal in WBR

Seemed almost like a Tropical Storm last night; someone in neighborhood said they got 13" rain on the gauge...Mesoscale System had a rotating head putting up 50mph wind gust from Tiger Stadium; Oak Hills Place and Millerville

Was going to Post this on Louisiana Weather thread

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Yikes.  That's really bad, and those are only the official gauges too.   Some spots in northern AP/southern EBR had even more rainfall. 

The silver lining is that it wasn't as bad as 2016, and the flood waters receded pretty quickly.    Definitely a testament to how we should all respect and appreciate our infrastructure and its limitations.    No city can take that kind of water in such a short amount of time, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be upgrading our drainage infrastructure and improving our maintenance practice around what we already have.

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Yes the silver-lining in Great Flood of  2016 the Wider spread "bulls eye" colossal rainfall totals were further NORTH/NE of BR up in the AMITE/COMITE River BASIN (Felicianas/St.Helena/Watson etc........thankfully this smaller bullseye was south.   The Siegen apts drained poorly ; guessing they are in a "bowl" just south of Wards Creek?? Water still car tire high last night

See if i can get this VIDEO...1st time ever to try this...Check out the SPIN

Almost when a storm takes a life of his own..a system within a system. Mesoscale Convective Complex....with a rotating vortex..went right over my house...fascinating stuff watching the WIND SHIFT from North then back to SW....Had  near Tropical Storm conditions for at least 30 mins as it spun overhead

 

 

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5 hours ago, richyb83 said:

Yes the silver-lining in Great Flood of  2016 the Wider spread "bulls eye" colossal rainfall totals were further NORTH/NE of BR up in the AMITE/COMITE River BASIN (Felicianas/St.Helena/Watson etc........thankfully this smaller bullseye was south.   The Siegen apts drained poorly ; guessing they are in a "bowl" just south of Wards Creek?? Water still car tire high last night

 

 

Wow!  It looks like  a powerful bow echo in a still photo, but you can clearly see a fast rotation.  

 

And those apartments on Siegen are VERY low.  They need to be demolished and rebuilt to a higher floor elevation unfortunately.  

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True Cajun! Everyday!

I'm with you Dan....i'm sick of it! Try not to complain too much with the West in a drought...would like to donate some of our rain to them if it were possible!    Looking forward to Drier weekend with some Saharan Dust moving in.

More where that came from....

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Frustrating not able to get a good night time pic.  Taking a pic on top of bridge = tricky!

I called DDD to make the suggestion to make better exterior lights for One American Place..they liked the idea; not sure if it ever happens?   BR's 2nd Tallest building is almost invisible at night!  That should not be!

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