{"id":7964,"date":"2016-08-13T16:27:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7964"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:27:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:27:45","slug":"louisiana-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/louisiana-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know if you&#8217;ve been reading this blog that we missed out on a bunch of rain this week. \u00a0The lucky winner instead was Louisiana, which had estimated rain totals as much as 30 inches so far, and it is still raining. \u00a0Here are a couple of stories about the flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Hilberg wrote about the flooding in the <em>CoCoRaHS<\/em> blog at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cocorahs.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/louisiana-deluge.html\">https:\/\/cocorahs.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/louisiana-deluge.html<\/a>. \u00a0In his blog post he talks about some of the observations that were made by CoCoRaHS observers and the meteorology of the storm.<\/p>\n<p>Ada Carr wrote a Wunder Blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/news\/gulf-coast-flooding-latest-news?cm_ven=MKOR_FB_WUtest5_8122016_1&amp;par=MKOR&amp;__prclt=n4ikmcWK\">post<\/a> on the impacts of the rain on the community and all of the flooding that has occurred there, including several deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a photo taken by UGA PhD grad Dr. Alan Black, who just moved to Baton Rouge to start work at Louisiana State University. \u00a0This is a road that is underwater from the rain near his house.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7965\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/alan-black-baton-rouge-flooding-13902785_198261947255847_7390766332421352221_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7965\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/alan-black-baton-rouge-flooding-13902785_198261947255847_7390766332421352221_n-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Dr. Alan Black\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/alan-black-baton-rouge-flooding-13902785_198261947255847_7390766332421352221_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/alan-black-baton-rouge-flooding-13902785_198261947255847_7390766332421352221_n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/alan-black-baton-rouge-flooding-13902785_198261947255847_7390766332421352221_n-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/alan-black-baton-rouge-flooding-13902785_198261947255847_7390766332421352221_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Dr. Alan Black<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know if you&#8217;ve been reading this blog that we missed out on a bunch of rain this week. \u00a0The lucky winner instead was Louisiana, which had estimated rain totals as much as 30 inches so far, and it is still raining. \u00a0Here are a couple of stories about the flooding. 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