Stories tagged with: louisiana flooding

• Chaplains relay 'glimpses of hope' amid flood crisis

  by Marilyn Stewart, posted Wednesday, August 24, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Marilyn Stewart

  BATON ROUGE, La. (BP) -- The catastrophic flooding in south Louisiana is quite different for Southern Baptist chaplains in the National Guard than anything they have seen before and, at the same time, all too familiar.

  Brigade Chaplain Page Brooks, a New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary faculty member serving with Louisiana's 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, said even though record rainfall and flooding didn't come from a named storm, the devastation is much the same. Read More

• DR 'angels' continue to aid La. flood survivors

  by Carmen K. Sisson, posted Tuesday, August 23, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/NAMB

  BATON ROUGE, La. (BP) -- Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers continue flood recovery efforts across south Louisiana, coping with intermittent rain as they tear out insulation, sweep mud from houses and carry buckets of sodden clothing to curbs.

  Few areas were left unscathed last week when nearly 7 trillion gallons of rain fell, killing 13 people and damaging more than 60,000 homes in 20 parishes. State officials estimate the damages will exceed $20 billion, making the 500-year flood event one of the worst disasters to strike the United States since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Flooded treasures

  by Doug Parkin, posted Tuesday, August 23, 2016 (8 years ago)

  Soggy, ruined possessions of Louisiana flood survivors remind Doug Parkin, a pharmacist and disaster relief volunteer, of the need for guarding spiritual treasurers for times of unexpected crisis. "Build up your relationship with God and your dependence upon Christ, just as you would build up sandbags against rising waters," Parkin writes. Read More

• Louisiana flood response to include associations

  by Josie Rabbitt, posted Friday, August 19, 2016 (8 years ago)

  BATON ROUGE, La. (BP) -- Local Baptist associations are poised to play a major role in the ongoing response to the south Louisiana floods.

  As the worst U.S natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy continued to close roads and keep thousands of people out of their homes, associational directors of missions from Louisiana said in an Aug. 15 conference call with the North American Mission Board they are prepared to help coordinate donation of personal items for flood victims and recruit volunteers to be trained in disaster relief. Read More

• Flood relief to extend 'as far as the eye can see'

  by Louisiana Baptist Message & BP Staff, posted Friday, August 19, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Jered Thomas/Baptist Message

  FRENCH SETTLEMENT, La. (BP) -- Aboard a Black Hawk helicopter rescuing flood victims in south Louisiana, Staff Sgt. Chad McCann saw "water to the roofs of homes as far as you can see," with the Amite River still rising, "methodically washing away foundations, structures and trees."

  "It is way worse … more widespread" than even Hurricane Katrina, said McCann, a member of Union Baptist Church in Deville, La., who made 80 airlift rescues after Katrina's 2005 onslaught. Read More