Since both places flooded, they have been sleeping at a shelter at night and cleaning up the homes during the day. His parents evacuated to his grandparents’ house in Baton Rouge, but that area started taking on water so they evacuated again to a hotel in Baton Rouge.
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“This is where I live”. She said Tuesday that operations at Motiva’s Convent and its Norco refinery, about 38 miles to the south, are stable.
Thousands of people in southern Louisiana hunkered down in shelters Monday, forced out of their homes by intense flooding that took many people by surprise.
Officials painted a stark picture of the crisis: an estimated 40,000 homes damaged and 11 people killed in some of the worst flooding in Louisiana history.
For the Baton Rouge area, it was a blow on top of what has already been a tough summer starting with the shooting death of 37-year-old Alton Sterling on July 5. The death of Sterling, a black man, at the hands of two white police officers incited widespread protests in which almost 200 people were arrested.
It sits in the driveway of the home she and her husband lived in for 48 years in Denham Springs.
Many victims will need an extended place to stay while they rebuild. He doesn’t have flood insurance to pay for the repairs but isn’t waiting for any government aid.
“I got nowhere else to go”, Thomas Lee, 56, told The Associated Press. His sodden furniture is piled at the curb and the drywall in his rented house is puckering, but Thomas still plans to keep living there, sleeping on an air mattress.
“The Red Cross is mounting a massive relief operation, which we anticipate will cost at least $30 million and that number may grow as we learn more about the scope and magnitude of the devastation”, Brad Kieserman, vice president for disaster services operations and logistics for the Red Cross, said in a statement.
But FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate gave assurances that the temporary units won’t be the old FEMA travel trailers – a reference to the ones brought in after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that were found to have toxic levels of formaldehyde.
Of the other deaths, five people have died in East Baton Rouge Parish, three in Tangipahoa Parish, two in St. Helena Parish, two in Livingston Parish and one in Rapides Parish from the storms and their aftermath.
Scotty Canezaro, Toni’s son, said by phone Wednesday that numerous children affected by the flooding had lost their school supplies. At the height, 11,000 people were staying in shelters, though that had dropped to 6,000 by Wednesday.
New Orleans has been unscathed by the flooding, and Airbnb was offering accommodations there for those displaced elsewhere by the waters.
A sign is seen along a flooded road on August 15, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A man and woman were rescued Saturday morning, more than eight hours after they were trapped.
Across the flood-stricken area, many residents said they weren’t required to have flood insurance and didn’t have it, since nothing remotely like this had ever happened before.
“We are one country, one people”, Trump stated.
Donald Trump is reportedly visiting Baton Rouge, which has experienced historic flooding, on Friday, according to WBRZ TV. Key, an insurance adjuster, fled his home as the flood water was rising with his wife and three children and returned today to a.
Sims is among many without flood insurance who will depend on federal assistance.
The number of those stranded and still needing rescue “was next to impossible to say”, said Mike Steele, a spokesman for the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, “and it’s changing every minute”.
Friends have launched an online fundraising campaign to help fix the new home.
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