I spent most of February 2018 in the hospital in Central Louisiana.

The Red River runs behind that hospital.

I was on the fourth floor, and with the floor to ceiling windows in my room,

I had the perfect view of the flooding that was occurring at that time.

Every day I watched the river rise a little more. It left its

bank and flooded a small park, leaving just the tops of the trees sticking out of the water.

And then it flooded the parking lot. tops of the trees sticking out of the water.

And then it flooded the parking lot, the road that went to the park.

I sat there for hours watching the river traffic until it was shut down due to high water.

And then I watched as all sorts of debris floated down the river.

There were pieces of buildings and trees of all sizes.

I even saw a car float by.

Close to the bank or what was supposed to be the bank was a whirlpool.

It must have been eight feet across and it spun round and around sucking in anything that got close to it.

And I often wonder where that stuff went once it got pulled under.

One day my husband was there and we were watching the river as usual.

Since I was bedbound, there really wasn't anything else to do.

And as we watched, we saw a huge pile of debris coming down the river. It floated over toward our side, and by the time it reached us it was hitting the tops of the trees in the park, and it started breaking up.

First I saw a big tree break off from the pile and moved toward the whirlpool.

And then something else broke off.

As it started moving in the same direction as the tree, it turned in slow circles.

I saw the end of it and then the side. I could tell what it was, but the part that was sticking up out of the water looking like long red hair.

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