The flooding nightmare continues, certainly in my part of NW La. My satellite dish, normally situated about nine feet above lake level, is now about 25 percent underwater. Amazed it still works, never expected it to have to undergo an immersion test. Water still rising but more slowly overnight. Light rain falling. A little less than two vertical feet before I’ll need to move mom and her cats to still higher ground, but it looks as if we might just make it. Mama’s own home of thirty-five years is a total loss.

This is the second lake flood I’ve endured, and by far the worst. I don’t recommend it even as an adventure. It is literally water torture.