Scores rescued in Louisiana floods
“I just kept picking and hitting and prying until I could get a hole big enough,” the slightly-built, 115-pound woman said.
Eventually, Gibson made it out of her Tangipahoa Parish home with her dogs, and they were all rescued by National Guard soldiers on a boat.
In another dramatic moment, two men on a boat pulled a woman from a car that was almost completely submerged, according to video by WAFB.
Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency, calling the floods “unprecedented” and “historic.”
During an aerial tour, an Associated Press reporter saw homes in parts of rural Tangipahoa Parish that looked like little islands among flooded fields.
In the Livingston Parish city of Denham Springs, a suburb of Baton Rouge, entire shopping centers were inundated, only roofs of cars peeking above the water.