Friday, March 27, 2009

Flooding and Tornados in Louisiana

Don talked with the Church of Christ in Houma, LA today. They had has some flooding and now a second storm has just went thru the area below is one report. The church in Houma had inquired about us coming there and helping them after Gustav but we had just arrived in Lake Jackson so we couldn't go at that time. Don told them to call if thing got worse and we would be there.

A second night of storms in the South battered southern Louisiana, toppling power lines and trees, damaging homes, and injuring at least one person.

The National Weather Service received reports of at least two possible tornado touchdowns in Louisiana late Thursday and early Friday. In Terrebonne Parish, the American Red Cross opened a shelter at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center for those whose homes were threatened by flooding or were without power.

Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet declared a Parishwide State of Emergency early Friday morning. The Parish received more than eight inches of rainfall overnight.

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