Thank you Jacque. We Cajuns are former Canadians who refused to swear allegiance to King George III. We survived the Brits by floating south, we'll survive this by climbing trees if necessary.

Jan 18th gives you time for an orderly withdrawal. Hope he is packing as we type; take everything not nailed down. Once the river soaks everything in its pristine waters there may not be much left that's salvageable -- but you know that, that's why you're setting him up in his own place. This is going to be a mess if that levee fails.

Exactly!

Best of luck to you and your family.

Can your Dad cover stuff that can't be moved? I'm thinking 6 mil plastic/polyethylene sheeting to cover stuff and help with clean-up after the water subsides. Or does that mud just find its way everywhere. Then there's the whole black mold issue...

If the river water touches it, forget it. We'll clear as much of his stuff out that we can and I do have a place to store his stuff. He is well insured including Flood Insurance.

He'll be in good shape then. Hope everything goes well.

Pity the folks who can't get out of the way.

Hope things work out in your favour. Tip o' the hat for looking after others.

So what's driving this crest? I'm seeing reports of extreme weather in the U.K., Iceland, and the Arctic. Just trying to connect the dots on a frisky planet with dicey reporting ...

The UK, Iceland, etc are all getting the same weather we had after the storm recharged itself over the Atlantic. The Germans established weather stations in Greenland, during WW2 because that forecast the weather over Britain two days later. The USCG would locate and normally take those stations out within a month.