Where is manchac la

Less than 10 residents call Bayou Segnette their full-time home. Flotants, or large floating chunks of marsh grass, drift in the water ways in front of Bayou Segnette camps in unincorporated Jefferson Parish, La. Brenda Harris and her husband, Johnny, grew up in the swamps that buffer the pine woods of Tangipahoa Parish from the north shores of lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain.

Now retired, the Harrises lived nearly full-time at their camp of 21 years on South Pass, a quarter-mile-wide stretch of water that connects the two lakes. They liked watching Purple Martins from their porch and gazing across the prairie on a clear day. The storm brought a 9-foot wall of water and mph winds that wrenched the porch from the house, along with three of its ground-floor walls and part of a dock.

It wasn't until a week after Hurricane Ida's violent passage that Ronald "Bay-bay" Laborde was finally able to return to his house along Bayou…. Almost two months have passed since the storm, which many in Tangipahoa Parish regarded as the most destructive since Hurricane Katrina.

Yet the couple is only starting to pick up the pieces at their camp in Manchac — a working-class community of fishers, old-timers and weekenders built into a swampy stretch of lakeshore straddling Tangipahoa and St.

John the Baptist parishes. For days after Hurricane Ida tore into Louisiana, a heaving mass of backed-up water and shattered debris churned in the usually tranquil swamp…. Recovery work started the next day. In nearby cities like Hammond and Ponchatoula, power was inching back by early September and trucks began hauling debris to staging areas.

That process is more cumbersome in places like Manchac, a community of about secluded camps — full and part-time homes built on stilts along the swamp shore. Hauling debris out of the swamp and returning power to the homes left standing are time-consuming ordeals because the area is only accessible by water. A glimmer of good news came last Friday when Entergy workers restored power to camps along North Pass and South Pass, according to Chris Hammons, a customer service worker for the utility company.

Camps in the area endured seven weeks since the storm off the grid. With no electricity, residents had only generators to power electric tools for fixing damaged homes. Coupled with the challenge of working without air conditioning, progress has been slow-going, said Kim Coates, a Ponchatoula-area member of the Tangipahoa Parish Council. A mix of matted swamp grass, shredded branches and pieces of pulverized houses lie on the banks and clog small bayous that flow into the lakes.

The Galva Canal, a waterway near U. Using the information from an Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Manchac. Our list includes information such as whether the community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 's Communities around Manchac. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Manchac. See our Newspapers Page for Manchac.

Looking for more information about Manchac? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Manchac, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Manchac. In addition, our notes show that the earliest dated mention that we've found for Manchac was in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide Other Roadside Stops Search for a Louisiana Community.

About Tangipahoa Parish. Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Manchac. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page. The official website for Tangipahoa Parish: www. The official website for State of Louisiana: louisiana.

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