At Least 7000 Rescued From Floods

According to The Advocate, about 1,700 National Guardsmen have been mobilized and more are set to join in efforts.

Neighbors have also launched their boats into the floodwaters to lend a hand.

After failing to break the window one of the rescuers jumps into the water and pulls the woman out by her arms moments before the auto becomes completely submerged under water. “And because these are record floods, we don’t know how wide the water is going to get in those areas”, he said.

In video of the rescue, the woman says in a faint voice, “Oh my God, I’m drowning, I’m drowning”.

In the almost one-and-a-half minute video, the trio can be seen trying hard to open the door of the vehicle failing which one of them also tries to break window.

Three people left dead in Louisiana flood. The governor said even more people were staying in private shelters like churches.

Police also were rescuing people from dozens of cars that were stranded on a miles-long stretch of Interstate 12, which was closed from Baton Rouge to Tangipahoa Parish.

Edwards, who described the flooding as “unprecedented” and “historic”, said he was awaiting a response to his request that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) make a federal disaster declaration for affected areas of the state.

Temperatures would stay in the mid-90s from Friday through today, with the humidity pushing heat index values higher in NY and Philadelphia, home to around 10 million people combined, meteorologists said. “Don’t get out and sightsee”.

The threat of heavy rain would expand westward with “at least a slight risk of flash flooding tonight over a large area from the southern plains to the mid-Mississippi/Ohio valleys and even the Northeast”, the National Weather Service said. Drivers tried to navigate treacherous roads where the water lapped at the side or covered the asphalt in a running stream.

Alex Cobb of Baton Rouge says she has been stuck since around 11 a.m. Saturday morning. Both the woman and dog appeared OK.

More than 100 roads are close and “at least one major highway has been submerged”, Troeh said, and added that “river basins across the area continue to fill with water”.

Blandyn LeBlanc helps his friend Logan Green get his dogs to dry land.

Beginning on Friday, six to 10 inches (15-25cm) of rain fell on parts of Louisiana and several more inches of rain fell on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.

Earlier in the day, Edwards said more than 1,000 people had been rescued.

One river, the Tickfaw, rose 20 feet in 14 hours, breaking a previous crest record by more than three feet, he said.

Saturday, when they returned, Cutrer found his house had escaped damage but his daughter’s was devastated.She and her husband will be living with him and his wife until repairs are done, he said, while another washed-out neighbor is staying with Cutrer’s brother.

The woman, her husband and her mother-in-law were driving on a state highway Friday when their auto was swept off the road.