re: #341 Floral Giraffe

Prayers for you & your loved ones, that this flood does only repairable damage!

Flo, thanks - we’re fine, really. There are a couple of areas that have been designated as “spillways”, many many years ago, and when the water is going to get high, they open the spillways. One goes into Pontchartrain Lake at New Orleans, and from there into the Gulf - the other is the Morganza Spillway, where there are some farms and small communities, some of which are protected by levees around the towns, but others- not, but the folks who built there knew ahead of time they were building in a designated flood area. It doesn’t make it any easier for them, and I feel badly for them, but it’s not like it was unexpected. Everyone has been evacuated, some people have gone to a small community that was built for Katrina refugees and was now nearly empty as people left there to go back to NOLA. So people are plenty safe.