Dee Vazquez, from left, helps Georgette Centelo and her grandfather Lawrence Roberts after they tried to recover their belongings from a family mobile home in Central, north of Baton Rouge, La., Mond.
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A Denham Springs High School senior, who now has no home and no school, said it’s like being in a scary movie.
The waters began rising Friday in southeastern Louisiana as torrential rain fell and refused to abate. Her mother and husband were rescued.
“I was scared”, May said.
“My husband and I just said, you know, we can sit here and cry or we can help cleanup”, Noel said in a telephone interview, her voice breaking. Thousands of homes are damaged.
Some didn’t escape in time.
A flash flood watch was in place until Monday morning for Houston, where rains killed at least eight people in late April.
In the most recent update, published in full by The Creole, AT&T said: “Our restoration work continues around the clock to restore service for affected customers after our mobility switching center in Baton Rouge flooded during severe weather”. “This type of historic flooding has never been seen before and we are not out of danger yet”. The forecasts Thursday were for 8 inches of rain, with higher totals expected in some areas.
More than 10,600 people have sought refuge at Red Cross shelters across Louisiana, and the disaster relief organization estimates that its response efforts could cost as much as $10 million.
Civilians also doubled as rescuers.
In one dramatic rescue a volunteer was filmed pulling a woman and her dog from a sinking auto.
More than 3,300 Guardsmen are involved flood operations – about a third of the force, defense officials said. However, the worst#News is that forecasters all over the country say it’s only going to get worse. “My kids were able to walk through the water”.
“About 40,000 homes have been damaged to varying degrees by the disaster”, Edwards told a press conference.
Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office said Tuesday that Acadia, Ascension, East Feliciana, Iberia, Lafayette, Pointe Coupee, St. Landry and Vermillion parishes were approved for federal assistance.
“We’re still receiving phone calls about people who’re trying to get out of their homes because they can’t get out as either there’s water coming in to their houses or their streets are blocked”.
Officials asked anyone interested in volunteering to visit VolunteerLouisiana.gov to learn how they can help.
So far, President Barack Obama has granted the governor’s request for an emergency declaration in 12 parishes, Edwards said Tuesday. The Brownsfield Fire Department notified the Sheriff’s Office of a vehicle discovered Sunday afternoon in deep water.
But search efforts and security aren’t the only concerns.
As fatal floods continue to consume the streets of Louisiana, another concern has citizens anxious. “We’re going to have more than our share of mosquitoes. That is made available to us as a result of the declaration”.
The woman says she had surgery less than two weeks ago and had been hospitalized. Experts said such an rainfall might fall only once in a thousand years. Large rain events can actually reduce the number of disease-transmitting mosquitoes. “We’ve had a couple of examples of that”, Bush said.
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Resident Toni Denova just bought new furniture for her home but that’s not what anxious her.
