Mike Steele, spokesman for the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said there was an overnight spike in flood rescues in the eastern part of Baton Rouge. This aerial image shows flooded areas of North Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. A 62-mile stretch of I-12 between Baton Rouge and Covington was closed.
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A spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office said one man died Friday after slipping into a flooded ditch near the city of Zachary.
He says the fatalities have not risen from the three dead reported on Saturday. The governor said even more people were staying in private shelters like churches.
There isn’t much information about the video other than it came from WAFB, a station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
In Livingston Parish, where floods had displaced “well over a thousand people”, authorities imposed a curfew as rivers poured over their banks, Sheriff Jason Ard said. He says water is continuing to rise in some areas even though the sun is out. “We are asking everyone to be patient”. “Don’t get out and sightsee”, Edwards said Saturday.
In response to the drowning deaths across the country, ABC News teamed up with the Indiana State Police to produce a video to show people how to escape from a flooding vehicle. The woman, who’s not initially visible on camera, yells from inside the vehicle: “Oh my god, I’m drowning”.
He appears to struggle with the woman for a moment and then pulls her arm above the water line as the auto disappears from sight. Phung went underwater again, this time bringing up the small white dog with him.
Both the woman and dog appeared to be OK.
The video, broadcast on WAFB, shows three men, who were on a boat, desperately trying to break into the vehicle as it sinks into the water. The night before, water had reached waist level, and he told the Associated Press that he saw an alligator swim by. Farmland was covered, streets descended into impassable pools of water, shopping centers were inundated with only roofs of cars peeking above the water. And in many places, the water was still rising, with rivers not expected to crest for days. “We also have great public servants who are really stepping up, and people who are being neighbors, like in Luke Chapter 10”.
“We’re just keeping them right here in the neighborhood, and we are all going to be working right here with them, cleaning it out”, Cutrer said. “It has not stopped at all today”. They try to smash the car’s passenger side window.
“Maybe she’s gone”, the other man said from the boat.
“Snakes were everywhere”, she said. The rain continues to fall in the areas that have been most impacted already. This is while the National Weather Service measured 17.09 inches of rainfall in the town of Livingston since midnight.
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And with heavy rain projected in parts of MS as the storm heads north, Gov. Phil Bryant has declared a state of emergency in at least four counties.
