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The National Weather Service said that between June 1 and Sunday, Houston had received 46 inches (117 centimeters) of rain — almost as much as it would expect in a year — in only three months. “The breadth and intensity of this rainfall are beyond anything experienced before,” the NWS said, as the storm spawned tornadoes and lashed east and central Texas with torrential rains. While the disaster response is now focused on the huge […]
by Katie Schubauer and Jennie Matthew in Hankamer, Texas Agence France Presse Houston, United States (AFP) — Rescue teams in boats, trucks and helicopters scrambled Monday to reach hundreds of Texans marooned on flooded streets in and around the city of Houston before monster storm Harvey returns. Houston mayor Sylvester Turner said more than 2,000 people had been brought, soaking and desperate to rapidly-filling shelters in America’s fourth largest city — and more are […]
by Nicholas Kamm, with Andrew Beatty in Washington BATON ROUGE, United States (AFP) — After a much-criticized delay, President Barack Obama visited flood-stricken Louisiana Tuesday, defending his administration’s response and urging citizens to pitch in and help ravaged communities. Obama — decked out in hiking boots and with shirt sleeves rolled up — touched down in Baton Rouge and toured a hard-hit and debris-strewn parish, promising Louisianans they would get all the help they need. […]
by Brendan SMIALOWSKI GONZALES, United States (AFP) — The death toll from historic flooding in Louisiana climbed to 11 on Tuesday as the expanding flood zone prompted authorities to declare disasters in 20 parishes of the southeastern US state. While flooding receded in parts of southern Louisiana, other areas saw rising waters. The National Weather Service issued renewed flood warnings. “We’re seeing unprecedented flood levels as the waters move south,” Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards […]
(REUTERS) Emergency crews have rescued more than 7,000 people stranded in Louisiana by historic flooding that has killed at least three people and submerged whole communities, Governor John Bel Edwards said on Sunday (August 14), as the U.S. Gulf Coast braced for more rain and rising waters. Stranded residents have been pulled out of flooded homes and swamped cars in cities and towns across the southern part of the state, said Edwards, who has […]
by Olivia HAMPTON WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A black gunman shot dead three police officers in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge on Sunday, in the latest spate of violence involving law enforcement. The shooting, which also wounded three other officers, took place in a city scarred by high racial tensions and numerous protests against police brutality since the death July 5 of Alton Sterling, a black man shot at point-blank range by police. […]
LOUISIANA, United States (Reuters) — Several tornadoes lashed southern Louisiana and Mississippi on Tuesday (February 23), killing at least three people and injuring more than 30 others as the storms destroyed homes and businesses and toppled a water tower, weather and emergency officials said. One of the hardest-hit areas was the Mississippi River hamlet of Convent, Louisiana, where most of the estimated 160 mobile homes at the Sugar Hill RV Park were demolished, the Advocate […]
