{"id":67,"date":"2004-06-25T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2024-01-11T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:57:17","slug":"june_25_2004_flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"June 25, 2004 FLOOD!"},"content":{"rendered":"

All week, really since a day or two after I\u00a0arrived on June 9th it\u2019s been raining. The last five days, it\u2019s really been raining! The last few days I\u2019ve been watching the bayou as it has slowly crawled toward my\u00a0camp. Obviously the creatures are crawling too as witnessed by Henry\u2019s recent visit from the snake. Mr. Don, the camp manager, keeps assuring us the water never gets that high. But his warnings seem to always come with implied exceptions, and a twinkle in his deep blue eyes.
\nI have\u00a0decided that the Airstream floating down the bayou, along with the various other object we have so far sighted; 55 gallon drums, logs, 1 and 5 gallon jugs, an icebox, some abandon boats and vast amounts of unknown objects washed away by the recent rise in water, would make a stunning photograph. Standing by the edge of the rising water with my\u00a0fellow campers, many of them long term leasers here at Turtle Bayou, I\u00a0hear stories about the last flood and the dead body they got to fish out as it floated by.
\nThe rise in water seemed to excite everyone and even Bill Ellis got a ride down to the fishing pier via Don\u2019s golf cart and caught hisself two catfish for dinner. I photographed Bill last week and got to know him a bit. He was a heavy equipment operator until a few years ago, when two strokes ended that and now he spends his days sitting outside his 1977 Airstream watching the goings on at Turtle Bayou. He\u2019s been living here \u2018bout 4 years.
\nLast night the water had covered the fishing pier and I made the decision to move in the morning\u2026\u2026.
\nDuring the night I\u00a0woke a few times and the water was rising slowly and about 4 AM I\u00a0fell into a sound sleep. 6 AM brought a loud knocking on our door and there stood Don, rubber boots, jeans, bright yellow rain slicker, blue oversized umbrella and huge blue eyes. Standing there in torrential rain with the same twinkle in his eyes. \u201cIt\u2019s risen kinda fast\u2026 you all might wanna move up a bit.\u201d I stepped out of the Airstream into 5 inches of water, looked over at the bike and saw the bottom of the engine beginning to disappear under the chocolate brown water and decided it might be a good idea. I\u00a0spent the next hour stowing gear, hooking up and hauling ass to higher ground.
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After the flood<\/p>\n

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just to remind you here is before<\/p>\n

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\nMr. Bill Ellis<\/p>\n

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\nDon the Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All week, really since a day or two after I\u00a0arrived on June 9th it\u2019s been raining. The last five days, it\u2019s really been raining! The last few days I\u2019ve been watching the bayou as it has slowly crawled toward my\u00a0camp. Obviously the creatures are crawling too as witnessed by Henry\u2019s recent visit from the snake. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}