Nearby her were a pregnant woman and an 80-year-old woman.
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Kelly and others planned to spend the night in Ragland’s home. Their pickup trucks were loaded with belongings they were able to save before the flood came.
Edwards said that because the ground is so flooded even a simple thunderstorm can lead to risky flooding again.
“The rivers and streams north of Interstate 12 have crested and have started to drop, while those south of the interstate continue to rise”, Meteoroloest Mike Efferson said.
“We work closely with our partners such as the Louisiana State Animal Response Team (LSART) and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) to ensure that anyone who evacuates to a shelter that accepts pets has the accommodations needed”.
The latest death was that of a man, whose body was found washed up on a riverbank last Sunday. She was traveling with her husband and mother when their vehicle was swept away by the flood.
The woman, her husband and the woman’s mother-in-law were driving on a state highway Friday when their vehicle was swept off the road. Reuters A vehicle is seen driving through floodwater.
The federal government has declared a major disaster in four parishes following widespread flooding across southeastern Louisiana.
In one dramatic rescue Saturday, two men on a boat pulled a woman from a auto nearly completely underwater, according to video by WAFB. The woman, who’s not initially visible on camera, yells from inside the auto: “Oh my god, I’m drowning”. “We are asking everyone to be patient”, he said. They try to smash the car’s passenger side window.
“I said, ‘Lord, I will be here to help the ones who did, ‘ and I am”.
One man asks for a knife to cut the cloth roof of the auto – which was a convertible – and hops on the vehicle’s trunk, which juts into the air as the auto quickly sinks.
Shoes, children’s toys and household items floated through knee-deep water outside his home. “We just want water”. Once she was freed, one of the men then dove again into the murky water to save her dog.
“We haven’t been rescuing people”.
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. “Get my dog, now”. “She said they were going to evacuate them but no one could get to them”, Muse said.
The rescuer reemerged and exhorted: “I got your dog”.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said residents had been pulled from swamped cars, flooded homes and threatened hospitals across the southern part of the state.
John Mitchell, 23, said he swam to safety with his pit bull after police officers in a boat picked up his 20-year-old girlfriend, Haybriel Thomas; her 1 year-old daughter, Kaylee; and Mitchell’s father.
Ray Cutrer – a survivor- told CNN, “Our guard was down”. “I’m already seeing housing taking on water”.
“Our guard was down”, he said.
Sunday evening, the governor declared a “major disaster”.
By midnight Friday they were storing furniture and valuables in the attic and carrying what they could over the back property line as water filled the road.
The damage caused this weekend serves as a reminder of how devastating flooding can be.
He added, “I promised God when I saw my house didn’t have any water in it, I said, ‘Lord, I will be here to help the ones who did, ‘ and I am”. I will be right here. Authorities say that the police is now prioritizing callers according to life-threatening situations.
“We’re praying it stops where it is”, said Kelly’s neighbor, Jenny Ragland, whose home on a ridge was spared similar damage.
In Baker, just north of Baton Rouge, residents were rescued by boats or waded through waist-deep, water to reach dry ground. It remains in effect until September 10. Donations enable the Red Cross to prepare for, respond to and help people recovery from these disasters.
State government offices in 27 southern Louisiana parishes will be closed Monday, Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne said.
Among them, a man in the Louisiana town of Zachary, near the capital Baton Rouge, drowned trying to escape flood waters, local television station WAFB reported.
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