Some spared, some lost all in the flooding

Many people have described the Aug. 13 flood as surprising because it occurred in areas that had not flooded before.
But for others the flooding was a familiar sight.
Keith Lafleur, who lives on Stanford Road in Eunice, said the water got up to top of his mobile home’s skirting.
“It just got a little bit in my laundry room, he said.
“I wasn’t expecting it. Not that deep. We flooded out here a couple of years ago. All the water from Eunice drains here,” he said.
This time the water got so close he has to decide whether to raise his residence or move out, he said.
People like Lorri Romero don’t have a choice. They have to move.
Romero lived at the Brentwood Apartments since December, but she said she was moving in with her sister on Mill Street after the apartment flooded.
Romero stayed with her sister during the flooding.
“Forty-three years she’s there and the water never got in her house, but it got in her house Saturday. I had never seen that,” Romero said.
Romero and other Brentwood residents were moving out until repairs could be completed, she said.
At the Eunice Housing Authority, 28 out of 80 units in Acadian Village were flooded.
Several Windcrest and Crestview apartments also flooded off La. 13.
Brandon Delaphous, of Windcrest Apartments, said, the floors moved as his apartment flooded.
“We couldn’t walk in the house. We had to drag our feet. That’s how thick the water was. I had water almost to my knees,” he said.
The flood-affected residents were moving out by the end of the week to clear the way for repairs.
June Young, Windcrest manager, targeted the completion of repairs for the first of September.