Saturday, April 15, 2017

Day 61 – Stormy Weather And The Locked Door.

It was supposed to rain hard beginning around noon so we did our scenic drives early. Humid and cloudy. We started with Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge. It was located in Rhinehart, LA and was about ½ hour from our campground. It was very pretty and we took pictures of flowers, bugs (don’t cringe), & scenery. Saw plenty of birds, too, but we already had those pics. Clouds were rolling in so we headed back to the campground, but first we stopped at Bayou Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge and drove through. This place deserves another visit when we have more time.

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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Day 59 –  A note regarding yesterday’s post: we forgot to mention one other cause of part of the flooding during Hurricane Katrina – there was a large pumping station in place at the 17th Street canal, designed to pump water OUT in case of a flood. This plan failed causing this important levee to break. Why did it fail? Because the personnel trained to operate this pump had evacuated and no one was there to operate the pump.  Okay, that said, we move on to other topics.

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