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stualaska
MMT Addict
Joined: Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:34 am Posts: 578 Location: North Pole, Alaska
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 floods
Have any of you mudmotor folks in Texas and Louisiana been helping out the flood victims? On national TV I see canoes, airboats and inflatables but no mudmotors.
_________________ so many rivers, so little time
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Tue Jun 09, 2015 6:57 pm |
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Quack N Stack
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Sat Dec 15, 2012 9:43 pm Posts: 2225 Location: Baytown, Tejas
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 Re: floods
Haven't see anything down here. Where im at atleast, everything thats flooded is swamp or marsh so nothing exciting other than some fun boat rideing Buddy of mine did use his airboat though to rescue/herd cattle away from the flood waters in Huntsville Tx. It was on the news here lol
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Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:31 pm |
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LAduckbuster
MMT Pro Member
Joined: Tue Dec 11, 2012 3:19 pm Posts: 329 Location: Blanchard,LA
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 Re: floods
I would love the oppurtunity to help people out but the cops and national gaurd don't really want any help i don't guess
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Wed Jun 10, 2015 6:42 am |
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Russ
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:07 pm Posts: 4820 Location: West Monroe, LA
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 Re: floods
They'd take the help. I'll see if I can get a hold of someone over there to put you in touch with to see if they need a guy with a boat.
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Wed Jun 10, 2015 7:10 am |
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cheniermudder
MMT Pro Member
Joined: Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:30 am Posts: 434 Location: SW Louisiana - Sabine River
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 Re: floods
Like Quack said, our flooding has been pretty much in the low lying areas around the rivers. Now ..... last Wednesday was the first time in a week that I was able to drive my little car to work from home. I was using my long tail to taxi folks in and out to where we left our vehicles. Quite an experience if you've never handled a small boat with a substantial load in high current waters at 2 AM. Luckily I been in a boat ALL of my life. Those poor folks up around Shreveport are going to be displaced for some time, and it aint over yet. Our water is still high here, so there's still opportunity for another flood here. Depends entirely on how Toledo Bend manages their water up above.
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Fri Jun 12, 2015 10:47 am |
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Deep_south
MMT Pro Member
Joined: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:01 am Posts: 173 Location: Liberty Tx
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 Re: floods
I used mine last week to help a local fire department rescue a old man from his house
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Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:50 pm |
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North LA Hunter
MMT Elite Member
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:39 pm Posts: 6976 Location: West Monroe, LA
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They had a big levee breech in Colfax at LA Mudfest. Had to evacuate 113 people (not sure if it was by boat or air).
Heard there were pictures of campers with about a foot of the top showing.
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Mon Jun 15, 2015 8:41 pm |
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CJB
MMT Elite Member
Joined: Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:46 am Posts: 5216 Location: Across the Bayou, LA
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Mon Jun 15, 2015 9:36 pm |
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kirk
MMT F.E.
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:52 pm Posts: 870 Location: SW LA
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 Re: floods
I've been to the mudfest there in colfAx and for the water to be over those buildings like that is unreal... I can remember where the river was and for it to be that much higher ..... I can't imagine
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Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:41 am |
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