An enormous and slow-moving rainstorm has laid waste to much of southern Louisiana, which the National Weather Service has called a “1,000-year” disaster. In Tangipahoa parish, Louisiana, Donnie Prince woke up Thursday morning to the sound of police on a bullhorn. Prince, 33, sat on a chair on Monday afternoon at a Red Cross shelter in Hammond, stunned by the scope of the flooding. Marshall Ray Hayes, 69, lives in an apartment complex and was safe from the water until Thursday afternoon – “it just kept coming,” he said. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Liz Bemtivegna assembles kits of necessities at a Red Cross shelter.

Source: The Guardian August 16, 2016 12:56 UTC