“It is mind-boggling,” said Lake Charles resident Patrick King. But, you know, eventually you do kind of get to a point where you ask Mother Nature: What more can you do to us?” Hunter said Tuesday.īy Tuesday the waters had largely receded, but more rain is expected across the region this week. Rainfall totals will probably meet the threshold for a 100-year event, Hunter said Monday. Hunter was mayor last fall when the city was slammed by Hurricane Laura on Aug. 27, then six weeks later by Hurricane Delta. Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter said the city didn’t have an exact number of flooded homes but it would probably be in the hundreds. "While we hope that the worst of this rainfall is behind us, we can’t be sure of that.”Ī flash flood emergency was issued overnight Monday by the weather service for the southeast Baton Rouge area, where up to a foot of rainfall was estimated to have fallen, according to . The Baton Rouge Fire Department responded to more than 300 calls overnight of people trapped in cars or homes starting to flood. “Unfortunately, more rain is on the way," Edwards said and pointed out that the ground is already saturated. The body of 33-year-old Justin Blaine Thompson was found in a vehicle submerged in water under a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, overpass, the coroner’s office said. 40-year-old Alvarado Morentes Hermelindo died and another person was missing after their car crashed into a canal Monday evening, Louisiana State Police said. John Bel Edwards said at a news conference Tuesday that there were two weather-related deaths.
Louisiana was hit especially hard Monday: The weather service said in a Facebook post that south Lake Charles in western Louisiana saw 12 to 15 inches of rain in a 12-hour period. since Monday, especially for many in Texas and Louisiana, and relief is not expected until late this week," AccuWeather meteorologist Adam Sadvary said. “Rounds of rain and thunderstorms have inundated much of the south-central U.S. The National Weather Service said more than 30 million people are threatened by flooding this week across parts of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas, an event Accuweather called "historic." Watch Video: Dad uses kayak to pick up kids amid flooding in Louisianaįlood watches and warnings remained in effect Tuesday for portions of the south-central USA after a day of torrential rain that left houses and streets flooded and cars stranded.
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