The Latest: It's another wet day across north Louisiana

The Latest: It's another wet day across north Louisiana, High baptize rescues are underway in Tangipahoa (tan-ji-puh-HOH') Parish.

Parish President Robby Miller says a absolute of 200 humans accept been removed from their homes east of Hammond and in the Loranger breadth northeast of Hammond.

Miller says they're accepting calls from all over the archdiocese of top baptize and homes threatened.

He says 60 archdiocese anchorage are now blocked by top baptize and that amount is growing.

Shelters accept been set up at an elementary academy in Natabany arctic of Hammond and at Loranger Top School.

It's accession wet day beyond arctic Louisiana.

Meteorologist Patrick Omundson in Shreveport says rain continues to abatement over portions of arctic axial Louisiana bringing an accession inch to portions of Grant, LaSalle and Winn parishes.

He says a lot of of the abundant rain charcoal over the Monroe breadth in northeast Louisiana.

Omundson says a breadth of Artery 20 east of Bossier City charcoal bankrupt and a allocation of I-49 is bankrupt south of Shreveport. He says Wallace Lake is overflowing, sending its baptize west to the interstate.

At the acclimate account office, Omundson say 11 inches accept fallen, but he has letters of up to 20 inches in some areas from Shreveport to Monroe.

All of southeast Louisiana charcoal beneath a beam flood watch as bands of abundant rain move over the area.

National Acclimate Account diviner Andrew Ansorge in Slidell says a band of abundant rain confused arctic over the New Orleans busline breadth Friday morning and added is expected.

Ansorge says an breadth arctic of the Artery 12 and west Artery 55 is seeing the a lot of rain.

He says Tangipahoa Archdiocese is seeing beam calamity and top baptize rescues are underway in the Hammond and Loranger area. He says up to 10 inches has collapsed in the Bogalusa breadth of Washington Parish.

Ansorge says the abundant rain will abide Friday and get lighter Saturday. Sunday will be a abundant bigger day.

Record-setting calamity in arctic Louisiana prompted abundant high-water rescues of abandoned families and animals and admiral said some levees could overflow Friday.

If acclimate permits Friday, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards planned to bout Shreveport and Bossier City and Monroe.

Edwards backward Thursday issued a statewide acknowledgment of emergency in ablaze of the astringent acclimate that's already hit those areas and predictions of added rain.

Bossier Archdiocese Sheriff's Lt. Bill Davis said two added subdivisions in south Bossier City and the breadth anon about and next to Louisiana Downs racetrack were now beneath a binding evacuation.

Davis said Red Chute Bayou aloft Artery 20 was still rising, and admiral ahead the levees will acceptable bestride by Friday morning.
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