But in a sign of improving conditions, the population at the shelter set up at the Celtic Media Center in Baton Rouge had dropped to 900 Wednesday from a high point of about 2,000.
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“When one state hurts, we all hurt and we must all work together to lift each other up – working, building, restoring together”, he added, referencing Louisiana.
DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (AP) – Keisha Taylor, a 37-year-old mother of four, has spent three nights in two different shelters since her family fled the flooding at their Baton Rouge apartment complex. He noted that FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate visited the state Tuesday and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson was in-state Thursday.
Gov. John Bel Edwards, touring hard-hit areas by helicopter Wednesday afternoon, said flooding still could strike rural St. James Parish and farther downriver. “I think another state can help them out as much as we can because if we needed it they would be there”, said Canezaro. His sodden furniture is piled curbside and the drywall in his rented house is puckering, but Thomas still plans to stay there, sleeping on an air mattress. “We want to get people in a more permanent situation”.
He said the plan is for FEMA to send in “thousands” of workers to assist with the response.
Flood waters receded in much of southern Louisiana on Wednesday, August 17, after a days-long deluge that inundated vast areas, claimed at least 11 lives and impacted some 40,000 homes.
Obama has not commented on the flooding. It started flooding the very next day, water ultimately rising above 3 feet inside his home.
In Walker, a town of 6 000 people east of Baton Rouge, heaps of belongings were outside waterlogged homes.
Residents in 20 parishes are eligible for disaster assistance as a result of a federal disaster declaration.
More than 70 000 people had already registered for help.
Sims is among many without flood insurance who will depend on federal assistance.
As of Thursday, about 4,000 people were in shelters.
Friends have launched an online fundraising campaign to help fix the new home.
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It’s 1,300 miles between Grand Junction and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
