Post by pavel on Mar 13, 2016 5:08:35 GMT -6
HATTIESBURG — As the Leaf River rose north of Hattiesburg, 26-year-old Rebecca Bruce and her fiancé grabbed what they could and left the shed where they live. The water was more than 2 feet deep indoors when they left, she said.
“We lost everything,” Bruce said Saturday. “I’ve got a book bag full of dirty clothes, and I was lucky to get that.”
Bruce was among about 20 people in a Red Cross shelter in the Forrest County Community Center on Saturday as creeks and rivers continued to rise after torrential rains pounded the Deep South. It was one of nine shelters open in Mississippi and 24 in Louisiana.
Downpours — part of a system affecting Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama — submerged roads and cars, washed out bridges and forced residents to flee homes.
Read more: www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/03/12/miss-la-hit-hard-flooding/81719222/
“We lost everything,” Bruce said Saturday. “I’ve got a book bag full of dirty clothes, and I was lucky to get that.”
Bruce was among about 20 people in a Red Cross shelter in the Forrest County Community Center on Saturday as creeks and rivers continued to rise after torrential rains pounded the Deep South. It was one of nine shelters open in Mississippi and 24 in Louisiana.
Downpours — part of a system affecting Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama — submerged roads and cars, washed out bridges and forced residents to flee homes.
Read more: www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/03/12/miss-la-hit-hard-flooding/81719222/