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HEAVY RAINS IN EVANGELINE PARISH YESTERDAY CAUSED FLOODING. VILLE PLATTE MAYOR JENNIFER VIDRINE SAYS THE AREA RECEIVED ABOUT FIFTEEN INCHES OF RAIN IN JUST A FEW HOURS. SHE ADMITTED TO KATC TV THAT THE CANALS HAD SOME DEBRIS IN THEM, SOME OF IT FROM TORNADOES THE TOWN EXPERIENCED A FEW MONTHS AGO. SHE SAYS THEY ARE WORKING WITH THE POLICE JURY TO GET THOSE CANALS CLEANED AND IT WILL HAPPEN ONCE THE WEATHER CLEARS UP.
FIFTEEN TO SEVENTEEN INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN NORTHERN CALCASIEU PARISH, SOUTHEASTERN BEAUREGARD PARISH AND IN A LARGE SECTION OF ALLEN PARISH ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. SOME HOMES AND BUSINESSES WERE FLOODED AND ROADS WERE CLOSED. THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE MARINE DIVISION HAD TO RESCUE A MAN WHOSE TRUCK WAS SWEPT BY FLOOD WATER’S INTO A DITCH ON SUTHERLAND ROAD. HIGHWAY 165 IN ALLEN PARISH WAS CLOSED FOR AWHILE BUT HAS SINCE BEEN REOPENED, THOUGH THERE IS SOME STANDING WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
RESIDENTS ARE STILL REPORTING POWER OUTAGES FOLLOWING HURRICANE BARRY. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS THE DETAILS.
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AS OF YESTERDAY, JEANERETTE HAD ONLY SIXTY PERCENT OF POWER RESTORED FROM TROPICAL STORM BARRY. MAYOR CAROL BOURGEOIS JUNIOR SAYS THEY EXPECT TO BE BACK TO FULL POWER BY MID-DAY OR THIS AFTERNOON. HE TELLS KLFY TV THAT IT WAS PRAYER AND GOD’S BLESSING THAT PREVENTED GREATER STORM DAMAGE. ONE HOME ON ARLON STREET WAS DAMAGED BY A FALLING TREE BUT THE HOMEOWNER WAS AT WORK WHEN IT HAPPENED.
THE CALCASIEU RIVER AND ENGLISH BAYOU HAVE CLOSED IN AN EMERGENCY DECLARATION FROM THE CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY AND THE OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. THAT MEANS ALL RECREATIONAL BOAT TRAFFIC IS PROHIBITED. THE EMERGENCY DECLARATION CAME BECAUSE OF EXCESS RAINS AND WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL WATER LEVELS RETURN TO NORMAL. ALL CALCASIEU PARISH BOAT LAUNCHES HAVE BEEN CLOSED AND BARRICADED AND THE CALCASIEU PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE MARINE DIVISION WILL BE CONDUCTING PATROLS TO ENFORCE THE CLOSURE.
Family members didn’t let Tropical Storm Barry wash out a Louisiana couple’s wedding day. Their ingenuity led the bride and groom to an unusual wedding venue: the indoor practice football field at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
The Daily Advertiser reports Casie Falcon Young and Garland Young Jr. said “I do” Saturday at the 50-yard line. The bride’s niece Tori Fontenot says she came up with the idea to hold the wedding on the field because the bride’s late uncle Lynn Williams, an equipment manager at UL since 1985, had always brought the family there to take refuge from bad storms.
ANOTHER RESTAURANT IN LAFAYETTE HAS CLOSED. CHEDDAR’S RESTAURANT NEAR THE MALL OF ACADIANA ON JOHNSTON STREET WAS CLOSED YESTERDAY PROMPTING KLFY TV TO CONTACT THE CORPORATE OFFICE. THEY LEARNED FROM PRINCIPAL OWNER ALLEN PERKINS THAT THE LOCATION HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY CLOSED. HE SAYS IT WAS A DIFFICULT DECISION AND OFFERED HIS SINCERE GRATITUDE TO HIS EMPLOYEES FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION.
A Louisiana coroner has ruled the death of a 75-year-old woman who founded Baton Rouge’s African American history museum a homicide by suffocation. East Baton Rouge Coroner Beau Clark released preliminary autopsy results Monday that show Sadie Roberts-Joseph was suffocated to death before her body was found in the trunk of a car Friday. He said Roberts-Joseph died from “traumatic asphyxia, including suffocation.” The Advocate reports this means her airways were physically blocked, cutting off her oxygen supply.
