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3 killed in Louisiana floods; more than 1K rescued
At least two people are dead and one person remains missing as heavy rains in Louisiana and MS continue to cause floods that Louisiana Gov. Bel Edwards called “unprecedented”.
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Another man died when water swept his truck off the road in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards told reporters Saturday afternoon. “This is an ongoing event and we are still in the response mode”. “If you live on the Amite River corridor it is urgent that you make plans to evacuate your home immediately”, he said.
“This is certainly not over”.
“People are keeping it together better than I thought they would”, he said of the roughly 60 people who stayed at the Red Cross shelter. “We tried to wait it out, but we had to get out”. Tangipahoa Parish alone requested tens of thousands of sandbags. “This is not a mandatory evacuation, but it’s absolutely urgent”, Livingston Parish President Layton Ricks said at a news conference Saturday.
“This is the worst it’s been, ever”, Mitchell said.
“We have a glass door at the front of our home, and it was coming onto that front door”, he said. But he emphasized the importance of getting to higher ground.
How long do you think it will take the flooded areas of Louisiana to recover? “Get out of there”, he said.
There were three deaths Friday and Saturday elsewhere in the state. The son was found, but his father remains missing.
Angrum was forced to call for help on Friday morning when she discovered that her family was trapped inside their home by floodwater.
In the small town of Crosby, the heavy rains and flooding affected almost all of the 342 people who live there, said Wilkerson County’s emergency management director, Thomas Tolliver Jr. This is one of thousands of rescues that have been conducted over the last 24-hours.
Rains are expected to continue in the area at least through the next few days, though not as heavy as the past couple of days.
In East Baton Rouge Parish, an elderly man died Friday after he slipped into a flooded ditch near the city of Zachary. No one was hurt.
Edwards said more than 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops have been deployed to assist rescue efforts, a number that will likely swell to 1,200 by Sunday. More than 100 pets had also been rescued.
In south Louisiana, much of the flooding centered on communities near the swollen Amite and Comite rivers, which merge east of Baton Rouge. As of Friday at 9 a.m., the Tickfaw River, on the MS border, was already at its highest level ever recorded.
Images on social media showed roads awash in floodwaters.
In south Alabama, a flood watch was in effect Friday as rain fell in the Mobile area.
“That’s never happened before”, said the governor, whose family relocated to a state police facility in the Baton Rouge area.
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Gibson, a horror book author and real estate broker, spoke to The Associated Press by phone from the hospital, where she had been reunited with her husband, who fell ill at a neighbor’s house as the floods worsened.