South Louisiana continues to deal with an unprecedented flooding event. Governor John Bel Edwards says state and local agencies have rescued over 20-thousand people from flood-watered homes. He says many of these individuals never anticipated flood waters inundating their subdivision…
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10-thousand people had to spend last night in a shelter.

I-12 remains closed in both directions between Airline Highway in Baton Rouge and I-55 in Hammond. I-10 East and West is closed between I-49 Lafayette and US 165 near Lake Charles. L-S-P says there are over 280 state roads closed this morning.

The Baton Rouge area has received much of the national headlines in this historic flooding event. But the director of the governor’s office of homeland security and emergency preparedness director Jim Waskom says the Acadiana region also has hundreds of homes flooded…
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Governor Edwards will spend the day touring the flood damagem in Lafayette, Abbeville and New Iberia, where nearly two feet of rain fell over the weekend.

It appears rushing flood waters claimed the life of a woman who had her vehicle swept away in the area of Hineston in Rapides Parish. The vehicle was traveling on Big Creek Road when rising water pushed the car into a ditch. The driver drowned, but a child in her vehicle was rescued after two females saw the freightened child clinging to a tree.