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The Baton Rouge River Center served as a shelter for hundreds of displaced flood victims. With an estimated 146,000 [ 30 ] homes damaged in the flooding thousands of Louisianans were forced into shelters, with more than 11,000 in state-operated shelters. [ 31 ]
English: TSgt Roger Butterfield, with the 259 Air Traffic Control Squadron, Louisiana Air National Guard, utilizes his skills as a full-time firefighter with the Lake Charles Fire Department to assist a flood evacuee that suffering from heat exhaustion at a shelter located at the Celtic Media Centre in Baton Rouge, La. on August 15, 2016.
July 25–26, 2010 – The remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie produced a localized heavy rain event on July 25, with 8 to 9 in (200 to 230 mm) of rain falling in West Baton Rouge Parish. More than 100 homes were flooded and 20 bridges and roads were washed away. Severe weather related to the system caused further damage the following day.
Cars were stuck in high floodwater in Baton Rouge on May 17, as severe weather prompted Louisiana’s governor to declare a state of emergency.The National Weather Service issued a flash flood ...
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The Morganza Spillway, a 4,159-foot (1,268 m) controlled spillway using a set of flood gates to control the volume of water entering the Morganza Floodway from the Mississippi River, consists of a concrete weir, two sluice gates, seventeen scour indicators, and 125 gated openings which can allow up to 600,000 cubic feet per second (17,000 cubic metres per second) of water to be diverted from ...
Former LSU Tiger and current MLB pitcher Kevin Gausman hopes to make a difference in flood-ravaged Baton Rouge.
Baton Rouge, 2016 Louisiana flood. Baton Rouge has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). It has mild winters, hot and humid summers, moderate to heavy rainfall, and the possibility of damaging winds and tornadoes yearlong. The area's average precipitation is 61.94 inches (141.1 cm) of rain and 0.1 inches (0.25 cm) of snow annually.