Harvey slams Louisiana
Residents of Cypress Lake Drive use boats to transport others and retrieve items from flooded homes in Moss Bluff, La., on Aug. 29, 2017.
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Tropical Storm Harvey flooded several parts of southwestern Louisiana after the storm made landfall in southwestern Texas on Aug. 25, 2017.
Kids ride an ATV in a street flooded by Tropical Storm Harvey in the Clearfield Farm subdivision in Lake Charles, La., on Aug. 29, 2017.
(Gerald Herbert / AP)Cody McLemore pushes a wagon filled with sandbags as he fortifies his house in the flooded Clearfield Farm subdivision, in anticipation of more flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey, in Lake Charles, La., on Aug. 29, 2017.
(Gerald Herbert / AP)Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, right, confers with a flood refugee in the Lake Charles Civic Center shelter, in Lake Charles, La., on Aug. 29, 2017. Edwards spent some time speaking with a number of the evacuees, as the facility readies for another bout of rain from Tropical Storm Harvey.
(Jeff Amy / AP)Energy officials work to restore power after a tree fell across power lines in Lake Charles, La., on Aug. 28, 2017.
(Rick Hickman / AP)Clarence Johnson of Lake Charles, La., in his home on Aug. 29, 2017. Johnson was at home when the flood waters on Legion Street crept into his home, ruining a stereo system, television, and clothes he had stored on the floor of his closets.
(Rogelio V. Solis / AP)Rising waters threaten homes along North Perkins Ferry Road in Moss Bluff, La., near Lake Charles, La., as a constant rain from Tropical Storm Harvey falls Aug. 28, 2017.
(Rogelio V. Solis / AP)Brenda Bradley speaks about the flooding in her neighborhood in Moss Bluff, a Lake Charles, La., suburb in Calcasieu Parish, on Aug. 28, 2017. Bradley, 72, and her husband, Jimmie, right, had stacked sandbags at their doors, but the rising water was lapping at the steps to their back porch and had overtaken their front yard. Virtually every neighbor on Crawford Drive has at least a foot of water in their yards.
(Rogelio V. Solis / AP)A resident replaces the closed road barrier along North Perkins Ferry Road in Moss Bluff, La., near Lake Charles, while rain from Tropical Storm Harvey continues to fall on Aug. 28, 2017. Authorities cautioned people from removing the barriers because accumulated high waters along those streets could swamp the vehicles and the wave action of passing vehicles might flood homes.
(Rogelio V. Solis / AP)Brenda Bradley speaks about the flooding in her neighborhood in Moss Bluff, a Lake Charles, La., suburb in Calcasieu Parish on Aug. 28, 2017, and her plan to save her sofa and love seat, by setting them on a sawhorse that her husband Jimmie had placed in the living room.
(Rogelio V. Solis / AP)Jimmie Bradley speaks about the flooding in his neighborhood in Moss Bluff, a Lake Charles, La., suburb in Calcasieu Parish on Aug. 28, 2017.
(Rogelio V. Solis / AP)Flood waters creep towards Brenda Bradley’s home in her neighborhood in Moss Bluff, a Lake Charles, La., suburb in Calcasieu Parish on Aug. 28, 2017.
(Rogelio V. Solis / AP)Residents cling to a commercial truck as it carries them to safety following flooding to their homes on Aug. 28, 2017, in Lake Charles, La.
(Rogelio V. Solis / AP)Lake Charles rescue personnel help lower this resident who uses a wheelchair from the back of a vehicle late on Aug. 28, 2017, in Lake Charles, La., after flooding from Harvey’s almost constant rain.
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