It’s the second such announcement this week.
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Damaged products are seen at Jasmine’s Beauty Supply following the floods on August 16, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Classes originally were scheduled to start Wednesday. “Had it been one, I would have had it”, she said. Obama received the briefing while in Martha’s Vineyard, a MA island.
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said that only 12 percent of the homes in hard-hit Baton Rouge were covered by flood insurance, and only 14 percent in Lafayette.
Because this flooding was not spawned by a named storm or hurricane, Edwards called the deluge “historic” and “unprecedented”.
The order is effective retroactively to last Friday and lasts until September 9. The sheriff’s office announced a curfew between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The extent of damage was coming into clearer view.
BATON ROUGE, La. – About 40,000 homes in Louisiana have been impacted in some way by the historic floods that also killed at least eight people, the governor said Tuesday. Eleven deaths have been attributed to the storm.
Flooded areas of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are seen from the air. The site has links to federal, state and nonprofit agencies offering assistance for water-damaged companies.
So far, 20 parishes have been declared federal disaster areas, which means affected residents are eligible for federal aid. The SBA provides loans of up to $2 million to fix and replace damaged equipment, inventory and property.
“Heavy rain and flash flooding possible over portions of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana”, the National Weather Service said in a statement Thursday.
A spokesman for Louisiana’s governor said his office had not been contacted by the Trump campaign.
Scores of roads have been washed out, and dry spots often made it impossible for boats to get through, delaying some rescue efforts. Gaga didn’t say how much she is donating or if she plans on giving in other ways. Her representatives didn’t immediately return a request for comment. Henry said his trailer home was raised off the ground and not damaged, but he wasn’t sure if it would remain that way. They completed an evacuation of flood victims in a Baton Rouge subdivision Saturday evening, and around midnight, they were deployed to a nursing home to rescue patients trapped there by rising flood waters.
There were reports of looting in areas where homes and businesses were abandoned by fleeing residents.
Chris Bankston was with workers mucking out his family-owned auto parts store Wednesday. In fact, transportation needs could end up being one of the bigger surprises for the state – 30 stretches of highway went under water this past weekend, 200 roads were closed and 1,400 bridges were flagged for inspections.
One of the hardest hit areas is Livingston Parish with an official estimating 75 per cent of homes totally destroyed. Neighbors organize care packages for people in the “devastated areas”, while floodwaters seep into their homes.
Louisiana’s Guardsmen are trained, ready and equipped to stand up at any moment to protect lives and property, maintain communications, and ensure the continuity of operations and government.
Members of the Coast Guard and National Guard, along with emergency responders and regular civilians, helped take more than 20,000 residents to safety, officials said.
Kieserman says the flooding in Louisiana is the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Superstorm Sandy.
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The heartbreaking task of sorting through waterlogged belongings and ripping out carpets and drywall is kicking into high gear in flood-wracked southern Louisiana.
More than 600,000 sand bags have been distributed, close to 96,000 bottles of water and 2,300 meals-ready-to eat (MRE).
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Hundreds of people evacuated to a shelter in Ascension Parish as the river water that hit areas around Baton Rouge worked its way south. It was a welcome moment of levity after days of worry around the state’s southeast, which saw thousands of water rescues.
