Lafayette is no stranger to floods and Lafayette Consolidated Government recently hired a director to lead its emergency planning efforts, which concluded in an emergency response plan that was announced last week. “We are just blessed we have more time to plan,” Sonnier says. Should waters rise to a level that made evacuations necessary, LCG would notify residents through it LafayetteNOW emergency alert system. According to Sonnier, Lafayette has developed a system to make it easier to connect those searching with those missing. “That’s something else that we’ve implemented that would be huge if we had something of that nature down here,” Sonnier says.