I-10 Flooding -Reopens

[Lucky Larry]

The 500 year flooding of East Texas and West Louisiana area along the Sabiine River border has closed Interstate 10 at the border between Tx and La. As a result Spring Breakers and regular gamblers in Texas and Houston are unable to make the run to the La. casinos.   

The road will be impassable for at least a week with the detour requiring an additional 8 hours of road rage from Houston north to Shreveport and then back down across La to the Lake Charles area instead of the normal 2-3 hour run. Shreveport, La casinos should be experience a "boom" in Texas gamblers need their fix this week and weekend. We talked to our Coushatta casino host yesterday. Gaming is dramatically down as few Texas patrons have been able to make their way over and those who do risk being stuck as the flood waters continue down to the coast.

So with the big Host Dinners planned for this weekend, Sweet C and I are waiting to see if Coushatta reschedules or we attempt a back roads attempt. We might have to take our life jackets and kayak.

Of course Sweet C and I add such weather related incidents to our gambling diary. We've help re-open L'Auberge du Lac after it flooded from the last big La/Tx border - Hurricane Ike and played the Shreveport Casinos the week after they flooded several years ago.

In a serious note, our thoughts and prayers are with those who are suffering from the flooding in both Texas and Louisiana. Thousands are homeless and several thousand contract workers from both Tx and La working in the oil refineries on both sides are stuck across the river from their families unable to return home without tremendous difficulty.

[notes1]

be very careful, apparantly it only takes a couple of inches of water to move a car. many of perished from trying to go through what seemed like a small amount of road water.

[Chicagoan]

be very careful, apparantly it only takes a couple of inches of water to move a car. many of perished from trying to go through what seemed like a small amount of road water.

If the water is moving, yes, it does not take much to push a vehicle off the road. But if the water is not moving then most cars can cross up to a foot or more of water. A pickup truck or a jeep-type vehicle can cross several feet of non-moving water. With floods, the water is usually dirty so it is hard to see the road surface under the water, and that is what kills some people --- they do not realize how deep the water is or if it is moving. In case of the slightest doubt, turn around. Once moving water pushes a vehicle off of a bridge or roadway, the vehicle will generally tip in the current and your lifespan is measured in minutes.

[Lucky Larry]

Yahooooooo!!!!!!

After being closed for 4 days it appears that the Texas DOT is reopening the I-10 Bridge road to La.


Thanks notes,
Us old timers are well aware of the water dangers. I was on the roads of Houston and barely made it home the worst day TS Allison dropped its 40 in. on Texas. Vast portions of Houston were flooded, 70,000 homes flooded and 2,744 destroyed completely.    Flooding is a common issue here due to the flat coastal plain and high annual rainfall (52"/yr)