My first post from Dulac:  Rain, rain, and more rain!  We are getting a good taste of it here!  Today we were supposed to be back at our two houses in Houma and Golden Meadow, but the regular schedule has been cancelled due to spotty flooding all over southeast Louisiana.  Schools closed or opening late, roads impassable, and even some homes flooding.  The region has had so much rain in the past few weeks that the ground is saturated. So, any rainfall pretty much has nowhere to go.  This kind of flooding happens often here.  It doesn’t take much to saturate the ground since the water table is so high.  In New Orleans, people just have to wait for the city pump system to do its work.  In the small towns, you wait for it to drain away — usually pretty quickly.

We have no flooding here in Dulac at the moment and the sky is quite bright.  Our dorm is built about 15 feet up on stilts, so we are in no danger.  Plenty of food, lots of games and puzzles and even a TV with cable [new this year] should keep us busy. And, we also have access to the computer lab in the main community center building.

I’m hoping to get us up to Houma midday so that we can at least finish drywalling one of the houses.  The challenge is mostly to get the drywall sheets from the warehouse to the house without getting them wet.   

Students are all back in bed for the moment… some much needed sleep.  We’ll stay safe.  The showers are supposed to let up by later today… stay tuned for more… Jan