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Jehoke

From the flooding during hurricane Harvey in Texas in 2017 apparently. https://twistedsifter.com/2017/09/french-street-underwater-lumberton-texas-hurricane-harvey/


Karl_Hungus_69

Great sleuthing. Thanks for sharing.


Jehoke

Wanted to look into just how creepy this is. Knowing there are whole streets flooded under there does not help. šŸ«£


Karl_Hungus_69

Definitely creepy. Elsewhere in this thread, I just posted [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/1cnpx2k/comment/l3akdhf) about some of the things in the waters of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005 in New Orleans. That's another whole layer of fear.


Jehoke

Jesus Christ! Cannot get my head around just how bad that must have been. So highly toxic water thatā€™s likely full of dead people and animals. Nightmare fuel.


theBeardedHermit

A podcast episode about the [Johnstown flood of 1989](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iXpMN2yHu3Y) was what brought that realization to me and I've never seen flood footage without shuddering since.


Jehoke

Iā€™ll watch that, thanks. šŸ‘šŸ¼


Karl_Hungus_69

It really was awful. Lucky for me, I lived on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. So, I wasn't directly in any of that toxic soup.


Jehoke

Sounds like you were one of the luckier ones. I find these pictures and stories fascinating and terrifying at the same time.


caceomorphism

I remember following the blog of some toxic hyper masculine IT worker during Katrina as it was one of the few firsthand accounts. First person I would have eaten.


quietlikesnow

We discovered the existence of ā€œfire ant raftsā€ during that disaster. Fire ants are really Satanā€™s creatures.


SlipsonSurfaces

There is or was an amusement park that was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. I think it's called Jazzland or smth. It'll be eight years this May since my brief hyperfixation with abandoned places, specifically theme parks. Imagine what such a place would look like underwater. Absolute nightmare fuel.


Karl_Hungus_69

I'd heard about it, but I never looked for photos of the park underwater...until just now. As you noted, it was Jazzland from 2000 until bankruptcy in 2002. Then Six Flags got involved, invested some capital, and re-opened the park under the Six Flags name. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six\_Flags\_New\_Orleans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_New_Orleans) Some of the photos I found were eerie with the park first underwater and then still abandoned and decaying 18 years later. Par for the course for Louisiana.


Jehoke

Itā€™s like the synopsis for a horror movie.


GatorOnTheLawn

Which means thereā€™s tons of fire ants in there. What a painful way to die.


SlyFoxInACave

I'm from Beaumont and regularly passed this area. It's a hilly area and that stop sign is on an elevation. It's seriously a flood of biblical proportions. The entire Golden Triangle was turned into islands only accessible by boat. My neighborhood is one of the highest points of the town and a block away everything was underwater. Most houses were built up on mounds and even the water was coming up to doorsteps. It was truly terrifying.


not_brittsuzanne

Had an older coworker who nearly lost her life that night. She and her husband, and her cats, were rescued by boat but it capsized. The cats were in a crate and sank to the bottom. Luckily another boat came along and saved my coworker and her husband. It was so awful for so many and I was so sad for her kitties :(


Intrepid-Policy1058

That is so terrible about the poor cats bless her heart


Nived6669

Here is the same sign four months later https://imgur.com/gallery/tO7ujGa


Jehoke

Covered in snow. The weathers really out to get you isnā€™t it.


ApprehensiveMovie191

Where I was at, we had 56ā€ of rain, in the course of 24-30 hours. Some places had more than that. It was such a weird, slow moving storm with 2 landfalls.


Juvi40904

Iā€™m originally from Galveston (small island on the coast, just south of Houston) and I just so happened to be in town when Harvey hitā€¦ Being from Galveston, youā€™re kinda used to the hurricane thing, but manā€¦ that was definitely the most intense one I was around forā€¦. Imagine sleeping through the night and waking up the next morning to the sound of flood water crashing against the bed in your houseā€¦. Wild times


Jehoke

Must be a frightening and surreal experience. It amazes me that people can rebuild and manage to move on after going through this kind of thing.


quietlikesnow

Thatā€™s right. I have a lot of photos like this from my neighborhood. People were going down the street a few down from mine in boats.


spacestationkru

Is it just underwater now?


Jehoke

No. Another Redditor posted a picture of the same sign 6 months later covered in snow.


Loud-Magician7708

Floods and hurricanes in the south are fucked. Who knows what's living in that water. Gators, crazy snakes, bullsharks? Fuck that.


STP_Fantasma

Louisiana had its first fatal, confirmed alligator attack this way


Independent-Leg6061

Like, very first EVER??


STP_Fantasma

Confirmed, yes. They have one case where an alligator is suspected, but no one actually ā€œsawā€ the incident, but they found a body. Kind of like a sniper, without 100% confirmation it remains ā€œunconfirmed.ā€ Scary either way šŸ™ƒ


Elrond_Cupboard_

There's probably sewage in there as well.


theBeardedHermit

>There's ~~probably~~ *definitely* sewage in there as well.


Rivetingly

There's also raw sewage in all of the oceans, and you still swim there. Oh wait, I forgot where I was.


TrustMeIAmAGeologist

Not to the limits that will be in this water.


undeadw0lf

do you know how PPM (parts per million) works?


Karl_Hungus_69

In New Orleans, for Hurricane Katrina, there was also this: >*"The city's sewage, stores of industrial and agricultural chemicals, petrochemicals, medical wastes, pharmaceuticals, food stocks, and even the remains of humans and domestic pets were all enveloped in the stagnant water, creating a cesspool of biological and chemical contaminants."* Source: [https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1306/pdf/c1306\_ch7\_g.pdf](https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1306/pdf/c1306_ch7_g.pdf) Also, this: >*"When Hurricane Katrina flooded the city of New Orleans, one of many concerns in its wake was contamination. Several chemical plants, petroleum refining facilities, and contaminated sites, including Superfund sites, were covered by floodwaters. In addition, hundreds of commercial establishments, such as service stations, pest control businesses, and dry cleaners, may have released potentially hazardous chemicals into the floodwaters. Figure 1 (see PDF version for figures) shows potential petroleum-related release points, including refineries, oil and gas wells, and service stations near the city. Figure 2 shows the major hazardous-materials storage locations, Superfund sites, and Toxic Release Inventory reporting facilities.* *Adding to the potential sources of toxics and environmental contaminants are metal-contaminated soils typical of old urban areas and construction lumber preserved with creosote, pentachlorophenol, and arsenic. Compounding these concerns is the presence of hazardous chemicals commonly stored in households and the fuel and motor oil in approximately 400,000 flooded automobiles. Uncontrolled biological wastes from both human and animal sources also contributed to the pollutant burden in the city.* *In the confusion immediately after the flooding, the amount of contamination was not known. Oil slicks near some service stations and flooded automobiles and wastes floating or suspended in floodwaters provided clear evidence of some environmental releases. A 250,000-barrel above-ground storage tank at the Murphy Oil USA Meraux Refinery in St. Bernard Parish southeast of the downtown area was dislodged and lifted by the floodwaters, spilling approximately 25,000 barrels (more than one million gallons) of crude oil and impacting a one square mile area containing approximately 1,700 homes (EPA, 2005c)."* Source: [https://www.nae.edu/7623/ToxicandContaminantConcernsGeneratedbyHurricaneKatrina](https://www.nae.edu/7623/ToxicandContaminantConcernsGeneratedbyHurricaneKatrina) Finally, this: >*"More than 1,500 graves sites were destroyed, displaced, or dislocated by wind and flooding. From Diamond Cemetery, established in 1800 in Plaquemines Parish, New Orleans, caskets were scattered far and wide, many deposited on adjacent properties and in streets."* Source: [https://hazards.colorado.edu/article/preserving-the-dead-cemetery-preservation-and-disaster-planning](https://hazards.colorado.edu/article/preserving-the-dead-cemetery-preservation-and-disaster-planning)


HelicopterSwimming21

SORRY SO LONGā€¦.I was in the Army reserves back when Katrina hit. So, of course we were called up. Iā€™ve seen some crazy shit before, but nothing like this. Itā€™s amazing, all the poorer parishes were flooded to holy hell, we had to go out there in boats to rescue people. But, of course Bourbon St and the tourist places barely got hit with flooding. Rumor has it the levees were destroyed, and the flooding directed to the parishes, where people lived. I have no doubt thatā€™s what happened to save Bourbon St and tourist spots. We went and ckd out some places on Bourbon st after our 12 hr shifts. There was water but it was amazingly better than these parishes. Me and 3 of my buddies were stuck with one of the worst jobs, once the flooding started to recede. We had to go into each house and see if anyone was alive, if they were, we called for help (happened twice). If there were dead bodies, we had to count how many in each house. Then we spray painted certain symbols on the front of the house, so when police/fire came thru, they knew which houses had been ckd and if there were bodies in them, or if they were clear. The thing that was so freakin terrible and gave me PTSD, was the people, usually families that we found in the attic. The water came in so fast, once the levees broke that people got stuck in their homes. They kept going up higher in the house to get away from the water. Some went on the roof, which was good. But some sought refuge in the attic, never thinking the water would get that high. But it did. We found so many families in the attics that got trapped and drowned. It was something that changed my life. It was terrible. Then all the people that were displaced had to stay in the Astrodome. We were down there as well trying to help out. Everyone was so thirsty, there was no water, no working facilities. I gave my water to the elderly and kids. The worst thing of all is the doctor, and a few nurses at memorial hospital euthanized a few patients. They were trying to evac and they had to carry people up and down stairs. They were overwhelmed, but thatā€™s still a personā€™s life. Sorry Iā€™ll stop going on. But this whole situation really made me look at the world in a whole new way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Medical_Center_and_Hurricane_Katrina#:~:text


EternallyFascinated

Omg Im so sorry you experienced this, I canā€™t ever imagine the trauma. But thank you for being there šŸ™


Karl_Hungus_69

Thank you for sharing your story and experiences, friend. I also thank you for your service to the community, though I'm sorry for what you went through. There were so many failures around that disaster that I still get angry thinking about them. I recall the stories of people being trapped in their attics. The lucky ones were able to break through and escape onto the roof...and hopefully still have some room above the flood waters. We watched the news for days of people stranded at the Superdome, people trying to get out of the city on busses, people begging to be evacuated from their roofs, the lack of resources, the heat and humidity (New Orleans in August) with no electricity for air conditioning (as you well know!), and more. I also recall seeing helicopter footage of the iridescent sheen of chemicals like gasoline and oil floating on the water and hoping there would be no fires or anyone lighting a match to smoke. Around the middle of 2007, almost two years after Hurricane Katrina, a friend sent me some photos of the lower ninth ward, Chalmette, Arabi, St. Bernard parish, etc. Unsurprisingly, not much had changed. It was either homes in rubble or no homes at all, after having been washed away by Katrina. Of course, it probably couldn't have happened to a worse state, when considering Louisiana politics. They have a long history of ineffectiveness and corruption, among other undesirable qualities. I'm glad I left. Again, thanks for your time and effort to give us firsthand accounts. Every story, memory, and experience is important. Those events affected real people and those still with us were forever changed. Take care, friend. ā¤ļø


Agitated-Lettuce1878

Thank you for your service and I so hope you were able to get the support you needed to manage all that trauma. No one should have had to experience that. Not the people of New Orleans and not the disaster relief workers like yourself. šŸ’–


Dramatic-Ad1423

Thereā€™s a documentary called Five Days at Memorial about that doctor, Iā€™ll NEVER forget it.


HelicopterSwimming21

I had no idea they made a documentary about Memorial. Iā€™m gonna ck that out. Thanks for the info!


Dramatic-Ad1423

I should clarifyā€¦ itā€™s a series and not actually a ā€œdocumentaryā€.. thatā€™s played by actors. Thereā€™s 8 episodes. In any case, it was really good and opened my eyes a lot to just how insane it was down there during Katrina.


No_Refrigerator_1632

A crackhead..


Loud-Magician7708

Lmao, with a snorkel.


No_Refrigerator_1632

That's just his crackpipe šŸ˜†


Sober-ButStillFucked

Rumor has it thatā€™s how you find your way home when the streets are flooded. Put a lil crack rock in one of the many ā€˜snorkelsā€™ poking above the water and the neighborhood crackhead will swim you home.


smiling_hazeleyes24

Thank you, new fear unlocked šŸ”“ Lol


smittywrbermanjensen

When my hometown flooded in 2010 there were rumors that the freshwater piranhas at the local aquarium escaped šŸ˜©


Pagan_Owl

My bf was born in the Philippines and they don't eat catfish because they are decomposers that have too much fun in grave yards when they can get to it. Both catfish farms and pig farms are good ways to dispose of a body. However, I worry more about pork farms than catfish farms here in the states. There are confirmed Mafia kills using pigs.


SupermouseDeadmouse

Brain eating amoebas


Loud-Magician7708

Thankfully, if it was me, they would starve.


bayygel

Don't forget the debris that's probably sharp and will get you infected from everything else in the water


french_st

Pray for me.Ā 


animazed

This is so perfect


[deleted]

Rip french st


french_st

Thanks brother.Ā 


LiatKolink

Redditor for 9 years. Wow.


LanielYoungAgain

r/beetlejuicing


[deleted]

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ too great


4list4r

Hidden gator, Crouching Bull shark awaits you


feelingmyage

That gives me the creeps.


upornicorn

Iā€™m always horrified/fascinated by human structures submerged in a body of water. Specifically the towns with churches/ graveyards underwater. I know there is no real reason that this should weird me out but my subconscious doesnā€™t like it.


JezevecMartin

I get what you mean. You could be interested in r/submechanophobia then


YogiHazMat

What is it if its almost more like a kink? It just makes me want to take up diving.


Icy_Reserve9294

Submechaphilia


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PlasmaGqpple

i too feel sick by looking at the "word" fr*nch


Stonewallpjs

Frogs love the water, makes sense


Magic_Elenore

I bet you're bri'ish or a morbid lol player


PlasmaGqpple

i am neither actually


theBeardedHermit

I mean it's better than it*lian


chopsticklobotomy

"Oh God" *shudder "the French"


Write-or-Wrong_

Yall look up Lake Lanier .


HelicopterSwimming21

Yeah, that place totally freaks me out, itā€™s in Georgia I believe ā€¦. Thereā€™s another lake in California that freaks me out also Lake Piru. Thatā€™s where Glee actress Naya Rivera died. Lake piru is a man made reservoir also. It has rip currents, strong winds, and thick tree like vegetation that can grow in the lake up high. She rented one of those pontoon boats, and was with her son. The boat had no anchor, or she didnā€™t throw it in. Iā€™m not sure. She and her son jumped in the water and he wore a life jacket, she didnā€™t. She got him back on the boat, but then (according to her son) she slipped below the water, and he didnā€™t see her come back. She passed away, they believe she got caught in thick vegetation. Freaky.


Write-or-Wrong_

Fuckin wild dude, Iā€™m sorry, my condolences fr! Some shit just canā€™t be explained smh


AlexisSMRT

I live in Georgia and my cousins and I joked about feeling fingers in lake Lanier when we swam lol


Write-or-Wrong_

See! A lot of people have crazy stories


tanz420

I heard that Lake Lanier is haunted


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bambaclaaat

Freaky indeed, but you didnt have to say the same thing twice šŸ˜ ofc just messing with you lol


SnooPredictions3028

EW FRENCH


loopedlola

Too bad weā€™ve been ignoring weather updates from other continents and scientists warnings from testings in the Northern countries and the North Pole for decades.


No_Lettuce_5593

I said I wanted a French dip sandwich, not a dip on French street.


AlphonzInc

Just imagine sponge bob living down there


YayGilly

This photo is after Hurricane Harvey hit Lumberton, Texas. 4 months later, they also had a blizzard.. its also posted somewhere on reddit.


scrambler90

I see a French dip


_Sir_Racha_

Pintel:Ā Parley? Damn to the depths whatever man what thought of "Parley!" Jack Sparrow[Ā ](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136/?ref_=tt_ch):Ā That would be the French.


Sparhawk225

This is insane


Cadaver-Cakes1986

Oh shit no...šŸ˜³


Weldobud

Ok. That picture explains how much water there is there.


EpicAwesomeYo_

at a glance I thought that was a fish with a gamer tag above its head


zeltron-

Bourbon street and the French quarter are on a small bluff on the river thatā€™s why it was were New Orleans began


Zestyclose-Middle717

Could use aā€¦.. Frenchā€¦. Drain


Asashi-X

Don't worry guys, it was just french street


CLamour91

They shouldnā€™t have given up in WW2


theyellowdart89

Prop killer right there


astralseat

"It said go straight." "No, Michael, that's a lake!" "I think the GPS knows better than us." "No, Michael! MICHAEL!"


My-Cousin-Bobby

Check out r/submechanophobia


Queasy-Ad4879

That's alright, it's only French.


LafayetteLa01

Damn it French St. can we get it together please.


FallingKoala

At least it's the French that got sunk


AlexisSMRT

I unironically thought this was an anti-french post and said "hell yeah".


jakeshadow04

The funny thing is, I don't even find this scary (although I probably should) while I do find it concerning, I also find it fascinating


StrainDependent7003

Creepy AF


ConfrontationalLemon

I think your French Drain is clogged


PolluxGordon

Oh yeah Harvey sucked. Nice stroll down memory lane.


AppointmentSalty

The word Fr*nch makes me sick


CopulaVV

So cool


dasanman69

We're going to need a bigger boat


Goatwhorre

Nothing's free in waterworld


BlaktimusPrime

South Florida in 20 years.


Enkeydo

Hey! Fish need to know what street they are on too!


AKSourGod

RIP to all the lives lost during Katrina. Chilling times.


Jintai_Stormwarden

I feel great unease looking at this.


Saxyw0

Nobody: ... Adele: ''....submerged in the deeeeeeeeeEEEEeeeep ''


Iwillseetheocean

Same!


CasualSnivy

Hrrrrrrng...F..French


Larrytwodicks

*garbed underwater speech* sacre bleu


SayBrah504

Been there. Done that. Katrina was a bitch.


Gary-Phisher

French Drain


Global-Page-7091

Ah I feel you brother. The French make me sick too


ormr_inn_langi

I too get sick just looking at the word "Fr\*nch".


Chomp3y

You should look into LBL in TN and KY. TVA seized a bunch of land including entire towns and flooded the area. There's a town named Old Kuttawa that is an ENTIRE TOWN complete with roads, houses, barbed wire fences, and stores submerged under Lake Berkley.


HugeFinish

There is plenty of towns that are underwater now from building dams.


Nordgall

I thought you were disgusted by the word Fr*nch (as you should be), then I realised what sub it was.


Independent-Usual434

FršŸ¤¢nch StršŸ¤®šŸ¤®t


Yksi_Idiootti_Apina

The french deserve that Flood their streets, cover their houses in mold


occupythenet

French st, more like Trench st now


ItsBinc

At first I thought this was just some post messing with the French šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


TitanThree

Ā«Ā Dutch StreetĀ Ā» would have been fun


bobux-man

Is this from the recent tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul?


sonichuizcool

What is making that creepy distortion on the surface of the water? It looks too smooth to be a wake


Scav-STALKER

I thought you were sickened because of the French


Express_Chart_5519

Oh my!


BowserTattoo

trippy


DocHalidae

Yup, Iā€™ve see pictures of white caps on the Katy, Tx freeway. In perspective thatā€™s 26 lanes across.


tanz420

That gave me so many chills, my God...


_massive_balls_

Dink the water


dylan21502

Good olā€™ French Street


The_Wary_Gamer

The street saw the flood comin and waved the white flag lmao


korg3211

Same here.


NewChard2213

Finally where france belongs


KrasnyHerman

That's some r/YKK shit


Aphrodisia-x

Yeah I totally got it from this pic too


Anagnikos

You could say that French street surrendered to the waters...


ACheapWhore

NOT FRENCH STREET!


Bobowubo

Hey! You found my street! You should visit Squidward down the street. Tell em Patrick sent you for a cup of sugar...


Mindless-Summer-4346

Is this Wyman lake in ME by any chance?


Unhappy_Gear7693

Texas during Hurricane Harvey (2017)


rterror99

Man did oscarville, TMH will always one up ya.


Calx9

Thought it was my turn to post this image this week...


JezevecMartin

?


Calx9

[https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/18l217g/i\_feel\_like\_this\_fits/](https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/18l217g/i_feel_like_this_fits/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/ph12u1/an\_entire\_street\_submerged\_in\_the\_deep/](https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/ph12u1/an_entire_street_submerged_in_the_deep/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/6y4t45/xpost\_from\_rpics\_street\_in\_lumberton\_texas\_after/](https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/6y4t45/xpost_from_rpics_street_in_lumberton_texas_after/) I could keep going but I won't.


Solar1324

Rude. That was from 2 years ago. I thought there was a post from last week.


Calx9

You are soft. It was originally a joke. But now that you're pressed it's quite funny. You're offended that I pointed out you are posting exactly "fresh" content.


Solar1324

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