they cant understand why the water is moving so slow . They guess since we been in a drought ,ground is soaking it up???

It has been pretty dry. That is part of it, but that area is 3-4 miles wide also. Thats alot of room for the water to spread out.

You can get flood insurance in a flood zone, if you are above flood elevation.
My sisters house got flooded for Rita, no flood insurance.
She bought flood insurance and flooded for Ike.
She got paid, no issues.
It was the first time she flooded since the house was built in 1962.
If you are under elevation, you pay a lot more. If you are above flood elevation,
you pay the same as everyone else above flood elevation.

The Morganza Spillway at Hwy 190 was dry at 4pm yesterday and 12' deep at 6am this morning. Rose 12' overnight.

WOW....:eek:

Went through Krotz Springs yesterday afternoon. The gravel road that runs through Sherburne.. wayyyy underwater!! And as mentioned the 4 mile bridge had a good bit of water under it and it was FLOWING!

wonder what effect this will have in big AL?

Prolly wash all the fish into the gulf! Along with the hogs and deer......

Only time will tell. I think it depends on the rate at which the water is flowing though. If its a gradual rise I think it will help big Alabama but if it is sweeping through, it could probably really hurt it. Depends how fast it goes down too, slower the slower the better I would think

As far as henderson is concerned, I heard that the flood should help by restocking with fish from the atchaf. but I would think that there is mainly trash fish that would come in.. Hard to imagine bass and crappie thriving in the atcha.

i think you'll be surprised. I was always told that the river is FULL of fish and fish of all species.

The achafalaya definatly hold some fish ive seen old me who would stop on the bank of the crook shane (a bayou off the achafalya)and cut down a willow tree on the way to the camp next morning we killed the sacalait over that tree in the brown of the achafalya.

i believe it man. Hopefully all of the basin will benefit from this high water. It would be pretty awesome to see the bass and sacalait populations back to where they were 10 years ago.

I can't wait to catch some Silverfin in Henderson!!

lmao! Trust me there will be PLENTY of them everywhere. We went ride by the spillway on Sunday and I know I saw 100+ of them jumping in the rushing water. I have a video of it too, but i don't how to upload that onto here its pretty bad quality anyway

i don't know if that worked or not, but if it did fast forward until about 1:30 and thats where you can see all the fish jumping

Man thats not good...

Dude that sucks.... Do they have the potential to wipe out other game fish or are they more of just a nuisance?

We sure don't need all them trash fish.

agreed....keep the SCHAT fish outta hurrr

I really dont know, but i think they eat pretty much everything from grass to small fish. I hope i'm wrong though

they are considered invasive species for a reason

did they open more gates again today? I've been watching the Butte Larose water predictions, and this morning it showed the water getting to 25ft on tuesday and now it only shows 23.5...