Record flood of 1973

As we are constantly reminded via every source of media that exists, the waters are rising. Every year South Louisiana gets to show the rest of the world in a high profile way something new: hurricanes, storm surges and assorted disasters man-made and otherwise, usually Gulf of Mexico in orgin.
This time it's flooding from the North. As in most of North America.
What used to be called, and maybe still is, "backwater flooding from the Atchafalaya" is threatening Terrebonne again.
Reference is made to the title above. I remember Gibson being pretty wet back then; when you could pass on the highway, there was standing water, and it was a definite hardship for the folks on Bayou Black. I also remember crawfish scuttling across Highway 90, and people shoveling them up and filling whatever could hold them to the ever-spilling brim.
Just as Cocodrie is a foreign country to many who live but a few miles away, so be Gibson to plenty in the other direction. Nonetheless, flooding is flooding, mud in your living room is still a mess.
Which calls into question some pixels in the Big Picture when it comes to flood protection and coastal restoration. Flooding is what formed the ground we stand on. And pour highways over. Levees and massive structures begot the excruciating death dance to our environment that we are are witnessing, a generation at a time.
So just how much and how long can we stave off the inevitable? Ignore nature at our own peril. Two years without a storm has been great. A dozen more would be greater. Unfortunately, to be diligent means expecting the worse, and always leaving a little bit out there"just in case" we get a Big One, with the legendary storm surge that inundates Schriever...that would complete the trifecta of the coast, the basin and the 'high land'...don't want to be any kind of harbinger, whatever the hell a harbinger is, but it's almost time to start charging the batteries and changing the fluids in the generator.