Louisiana flooding is ‘major disaster,’ governor says
Baron Leblanc, left, and George Snyder move a refrigerator out of George's flooded home in St. Amant on Thursday, August 18. More than 30,000 people have been rescued in southern Louisiana after heavy rains caused flooding. "This is a major disaster," Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has said.
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A Virgin Mary statue is barely visible in front of a flooded home in St. Amant on August 18.
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Flooding affects a chicken coop in Sorrento on August 17.
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Kade Lewis helps gut his grandparents' home in Walker on Wednesday, August 17, after flooding.
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Caskets float in floodwaters near a cemetery in Gonzales on August 17.
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A man talks on his phone while helping salvage items from a house in Denham Springs on August 17.
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Gary Schexnayder stands in a flooded street in Sorrento as an early morning fog blankets the area August 17.
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David Key looks outside his flooded home in Prairieville on Tuesday, August 16.
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Raymond Lieteau waits for help to move a refrigerator as his friend Melissa Lockhart helps clean up the living room in his flood-damaged home in Baton Rouge on August 16. Lieteau had more than 5 feet of water in his home.
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Danny and Alys Messenger canoe away from their flooded home in Prairieville on August 16.
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A pickup truck is partially submerged in Port Vincent, Louisiana, on August 16.
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Cattle are driven through a flooded road in Sorrento as they are herded to trucks on August 16.
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People sort through water-damaged products outside Jasmine's Beauty Supply in Baton Rouge on August 16.
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A man navigates a boat of rescued goats past a partially submerged car in Gonzales on August 16.
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Noel Michael holds up a cell-phone photo of her flooded home in Livingston, Louisiana, on Monday, August 15.
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Ann Chapman, from the Louisiana State Animal Response Team, carries a dog she helped rescue in Baton Rouge on August 15.
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Eli Turnage hands out water to people waiting in line at Carter's Supermarket in Livingston on August 15.
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A boy in Baton Rouge rides his bike inside the flood-damaged Life Tabernacle Church on August 15.
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Ryan Evans makes his way through Baton Rouge on August 15.
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Robert Enfinger and his wife, Michelle, spend the night in a church that had been turned into an evacuation shelter in Walker.
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Tracy Thornton walks to his house through a flooded neighborhood in Baton Rouge on August 15.
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Floodwaters surround prefabricated houses in Denham Springs on August 15.
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Evacuees spend time together at the church shelter in Walker on August 15.
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An American flag hangs in floodwaters in Walker on August 15.
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Danielle Blount and her 3-month-old baby, Ember, wait to be rescued by the Louisiana Army National Guard near Walker on Sunday, August 14.
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Members of the Louisiana Army National Guard help people near Walker on August 14.
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Youngsville police Chief Rickey Boudreaux takes a break from helping flood victims to view the damage to his own home on August 14.
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Jennifer Bernard and her dog, Shelby, travel by kayak down the flooded streets of Youngsville on August 14.
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Floodwaters inundate a street in Youngsville on August 14.
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A girl takes her horse out on a dry road near Walker on August 14.
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Emergency personnel rescue flood victims near Walker on August 14.
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Those displaced by the flooding wait to board National Guard trucks at a Denham Springs church on August 14.
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Residents evacuate Hammond, Louisiana, with food in ice chests on Saturday, August 13.
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Floodwaters overwhelm businesses in Hammond on August 13.
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Jeff Robinson lowers a ladder from a National Guard truck as his wife wades through floodwaters near their home in Baptist, Louisiana, on August 13.
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An aerial view of flood-damaged homes in Hammond on August 13.
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Tammie Wise holds her dog, Mikey, after Jeffrey Lesage helped rescue them in Central, Louisiana, on August 13.
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A resident wades through floodwaters at apartments near Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
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A firefighter brings luggage to hotel guests during an evacuation of the Fairfield Inn in Lafayette, Louisiana, on August 13.
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People ride an all-terrain vehicle through a flooded neighborhood in Carencro, Louisiana, on August 13.
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The Tangipahoa River overflows near the towns of Amite, Independence, Tickfaw and Robert on August 13.
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Officials close down an exit off Interstate 55 south in Independence as floodwaters creep closer to the highway on August 13.
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Jeremy and Chelsea LeMieux paddle through floodwaters in Carencro on August 13.
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Rescue personnel and civilians team up to pull people from their homes along the Tangipahoa River on August 13.
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Cattle huddle together in floodwaters near Hammond on August 13.
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A firefighter helps a resident in Baton Rouge on Friday, August 12.