couple pics someone took in Morgan City, you can see the floodgates are shut and lined with a row of sandbags
before and after pics of the riverfront in Vidalia, LA (by Natchez MS) -- in the first pic, on the right side, you can see piles and piles of dirt they are using to build a little levee and now all under water...
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com One of CNN's video pages. The story "The fight to save a town from flooding" (click on the "US" category to find it) is an interview with my brother-in-law in Stephensville, which has street, yard, and some house flooding with the high water every year. I was out there helping him sandbag a few hours after CNN left, and his next door neighbors had just packed up everything they could and left, didn't even bother protecting the house. One of the impressive things about this year is that in other years, the sheriff's dept always has had to close off Stephensville to sight-seers. But this year, those people are coming in before the flood and offering to help. Total strangers are pulling up to people's houses and pitching in.
i don't know, maybe the La DOTD website has some info. that stretch of 190 goes right thru the Atchafalaya Basin, and i read they have a mandatory evacuation for everybody in the Basin south of 190 (have to be out by 5pm today) and a voluntary evacuation for everybody in the Basin north of 190. i would think taking I-10 would be the better bet
