The trouble in Louisiana is unrelated to the outage that some customers in the Midwest experienced on Saturday.
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One of those motorists was Alex Cobb of Baton Rouge, who has been stuck since around 11 a.m. Saturday morning. “People that should have evacuated didn’t, so they are having to be evacuated”.
– The head of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency says 56 people remain in a shelter because their homes are flooded.
During an aerial tour, an Associated Press reporter saw homes in parts of rural Tangipahoa Parish that looked like little islands among flooded fields.
But flooded streets mean people can’t get in or out so they had to be evacuated by high-water trucks.
“We’re coming, we’re coming”, one of the men says. This is quite a lot considering it only takes around two feet of rain to drag cars away.
The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the body of a man was recovered from flood waters, making him the fourth confirmed fatality in south Louisiana due to flooding.
Floodwaters have swamped parts of the state after drenching rain earlier in the week.
AUBREY: There have been three reported deaths, as we just said. “It’s not over”, Edwards told NBC on Sunday.
More parishes will be added on a rolling basis as more assessments are made.
The company is recommending customers text before calling and use wi-fi where it’s available. Nearby her were a pregnant woman and an 80-year-old woman. As the waters rise there are places where roads are going to be underwater and they may not be marked as such and they are going to be risky. Baton Rouge also received almost 17 inches. He said he has Stage 4 cancer but he felt like he had to help. The Tangipahoa, Biloxi and Pearl rivers all were flooding, he said.
He said people living in areas where they’ve been asked to evacuate should heed warnings and people should stay off the road. The governor said even more people were staying in private shelters, such as churches.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency for several counties in his state as it also battled the heavy rainfall. More than 500 pets have also been rescued, he said.
Wide swathes of the state have been hit by historic levels of flooding.
Emergency workers in Louisiana have rescued more than 7,000 residents stranded in homes and cars during a historic flood, Governor John Bel Edwards said Sunday.
Across southern Louisiana Sunday, residents scrambled to get to safety as rivers and creeks burst their banks, swollen from days of heavy rain that in some areas came close to two feet over a 48-hour period.
Some 1,700 members of the Louisiana National Guard have been deployed for rescue efforts.
Two additional flood victims from St. Helena Parish were believed to have drowned after their vehicles were submerged in flood waters. “Don’t get out and sightsee”, Edwards said yesterday.
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About 200 roads have been closed because due to high water, officials said, and 1,400 bridges need to be inspected before they are reopened to traffic, officials said. Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff Ivy Woods is advising residents to pack up and get out before Tuesday.
