How four days of rain reshaped our communities
Ten years ago this week, the sky opened over Southeast Louisiana and refused to close. What began in early August 2016 as a routine summer forecast devolved into a historic, thousand-year hydrologic event.
For four straight days, from Thursday, August 11, through Sunday, August 14, 2016, a slow-moving, moisture-laden tropical system sat directly atop the Florida Parishes, wringing out an astonishin…