Local History
This place was referred to as "Where the West Begins"
What is Scott, LA
This popular food is composed of fried pig skin
What is Cracklins / Pork Rinds
This instrument is used in various Cajun and Creole music and can even be used to wash your cloths!
What is a washboard
This storm is a mobile vortex of rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
What is a tornado?
Where you go when there is a flood warning in your city.
What is safe shelter?
This group was created after Novia Scotian refugees met Atakapa Tribes and Spanish rulers in south Louisiana.
what are Cajuns
This well known cottage is home to sweets and ice cream of any variety, making it a children's wonderland
What is Candyland Cottage
This language was once illegal to speak but is now making its way back into the daily dialect of south Louisiana residents
What is French
This storm can be up to 600 miles across and have strong winds spiraling inward and upwards at speeds of 75 to 200 mph.
What is a Hurricane
These are two activities that people should not partake in during a flood.
What is swimming or driving through flood water?
This school, built in the 1890's, was originally built south of Old Spanish Trail but was moved to its current location in present day on Cameron Street
What is L. Leo Judice Elementary School
This Créole cooking term is used often even though the ingredients change from group to group, though its original ingredients were Onions, Celery and Green Bell Peppers.
What is the Holy Trinity
This song, written and recorded by Hank Williams, was released ion July 1952 and is sung in celebrations around Louisiana.
What is Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
This term refers to a rainstorm event where total rainfall has a one percent probability of occurring at that location in that year.
What is a 100 year storm?
This temporary and last resort flood protection is normally distributed at public city areas to civilians by city officials before hurricanes touch land
What are Sand Bags
This common name for Scott refers to the main food group bringing tourism to the city
What is The Boudin Capital of the World
This dish is consumed fried, in a stew or in sausage. It comes from an animal known as a main predator living in the swamp
What is Alligator
This term often used in use of intense emotion, shock or amazement
What is Mais La
This term is used to describe water being pulled from the ocean and pushed towards the shore by the storm, causing water level to rise 30 feet or more.
What is a Hurricane Storm Surge
One foot of moving floodwater can sweep this common mode of transportation out of control.
What is a car?
This music festival, held every year in October, sparked its beginning in 1964 when Dewey Balfa, Gladdie Thibodeaux and Louis Vinesse Lejeune were invited to Rhode Island to perform for the first cajun music ever recorded.
What is Festivals Acadiens et créoles
This dish is composed of a tomato base stew with fish, onions and mixed vegetables
What is Courtbouillon
This Indian tribe has been appointed the original Inhabitants of Southwest Louisiana
What are the Attakapas Indians
After the initial named list of names for hurricanes is used up, this alphabet is then used to name storms
What is the Greek Alphabet
This Federal program provides flood insurance.
What is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).