Sunday 13 March 2016

Thousands of homes damaged and 4 die as floods hit south U.S.


Many people were killed after drenching thunderstorms moved through Louisiana and Mississippi. Rainfall reached two feet in some areas, killed three people in Louisiana and one in Oklahoma. Louisiana’s emergency management office warned in a statement “the crisis is not over.”
It said some 5,000 homes had already been damaged. While Two fishermen were missing in Mississippi. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned of a tornado threat and potential for hail and damaging winds across eastern Arkansas and northern Louisiana.
The flooding as historic and the worst seen in the region apart from that spawned by hurricanes. almost 400 homes suffered damage from the rainfall and flooding, the state emergency agency said.

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