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I waded out into the flood in Old Mandeville yesterday. This is taken from Gerard Street in Mandeville, about a block from Lake Ponchartrain... Despite the wild surf on the lake, the floodwaters on the Mandeville city streets were calm, and folks took to them in various modes of transportation:


Everyone seemed very calm.

There were lots of enormous grasshoppers too:


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Date: 2008-09-13 06:54 pm (UTC)I assume you've been told about manhole covers floating away, etc... Were you on foot?
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Date: 2008-09-14 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-14 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-14 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-14 07:53 pm (UTC)how did you yourself get around?
thanks!
Date: 2008-09-14 08:17 pm (UTC)One of the neighbors was telling me about when the water of lake pontchartrain was clear!
(I asked what happened?? and she said people!)
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Date: 2008-09-14 10:31 pm (UTC)