Flood waters receded in southern Louisiana on
Wednesday (Aug 17), after a days-long deluge that inundated vast areas, claimed
11 lives, and impacted some 40,000 homes.
Residents were cleaning up in many neighbourhoods,
and trying to assess the scope of the devastation left by heavy, unrelenting
rains that overwhelmed rivers and sent them flooding over their banks.
"When you have a storm that is unnamed, wasn't
a tropical storm, wasn't a hurricane, a lot of the times people underestimate
the impacts that it would have," Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said
Tuesday.
