LSU Economist Jim Richardson estimates it will take at least a year to recover from the historic flood damage. Jeff Palermo has more…
Entergy announces power has been restored to all the homes that can safely receive it. They say about 2-thousand customers are still without power because of extensive flood damage to their homes. Overall, over 32-thousand Entergy customers were affected by the historic flooding.
Vermilion parish is beginning to enter the recovery phase of their flood relief efforts. Emergency Preparedness director, Rebecca Broussard says some homes in Vermilion Parish had water up to the roof, and several roads are still underwater. She says usually flooding in Vermilion is the result of storm surge from hurricanes, but that’s not the case this time.
She says 11-hundred homes in the parish flooded.
The Amite River, which contributed to much of the flooding in southeast Louisiana, should finally fall below flood stage today. Freddie Zeigler, with the National Weather Service in Slidell, says the Amite is still above flood stage at French Settlement in Livingston Parish, but that should change by tomorrow
Zeigler says unfortunately the flood threat is not over yet, as backwater remains a problem in some areas.