Devastating flooding in Louisiana may be hundreds of miles away but it is hitting close to home for one North Texas woman. The body of a 49-year-old man was discovered in a wooded area near Kentwood.
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Officials announced late Monday that another body was recovered from the water in Baton Rouge, raising the number of known fatalities to seven.
While waters were receding in parts of southern Louisiana, other areas were seeing rising waters.
Baton Rouge’s Chabad House launched an emergency fundraising campaign for thousands of people affected by the massive floods that swept across Louisiana.
Nearly a third of all homes have flooded in Ascension Parish, Louisiana after the region’s levee system failed to keep floodwaters at bay.
More than 11,000 people were staying in shelters, with a movie studio and a civic center that usually hosts concerts and ballets pressed into service.
“It was an absolute act of God”.
“There are still a lot of people who are suffering”, including the 34 thousand customers who remain without electricity in summer heat and humidity – raising concerns of mold, he said.
A team led by Coast Guard helicopter pilot Lt. Mike Hennebery picked up two people from the second-story porch of a Baton Rouge house. Simon Gottenberg, said without Global Positioning System wavepoints to locate those who were stranded, rescue crews had to get creative. Meteorologist Ken Graham of the National Weather Service’s office in Slidell, near New Orleans, said forecasters had alerted people days ahead of the rain. The forecasts Thursday were for 8 inches of rain, with higher totals expected in some areas.
“We’re praying it stops where it is”, said Kelly’s neighbor, Jenny Ragland, whose home on a ridge was spared similar damage.
“I have teachers who live in Acadia and Vermilion and their homes are OK, but they can not leave”, LeJeune said.
Efferson says the Comite River just east of Baton Rouge on Monday morning dropped almost 2 feet from the 34.2-feet level over the weekend.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said during a news conference Tuesday that parts of the state are entering a recovery phase while search and rescue missions happen in other places.
The Amite River, the source of flooding for many areas, had risen 14 feet above flood level in one reading, besting a previous record flood in April 1983, the NWS said.
Our thoughts are with the people and pets of Louisiana during this time. In Livingston, more than 1,000 homes have been flooding, along with 200 in St. Helena Parish, and 500 or more in Tangipahoa Parish. Shelters filled up so fast that some people had to sleep on the floor Saturday night because not enough cots had arrived. She also used her own drone to take aerial images of her neighbourhood inundated with flood waters. When she tries to dive under for her dog, the rescuer goes underwater and reappears holding the animal.
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Parish President Robby Miller says they are still doing damage assessments, but he estimates that they will have at least 7,500 homes with flood damage – meaning they took on water anywhere from an inch to up to the roof.
