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U.S. NEWS Saturday 29 december 2018
Water rescues in South, heavy snow in Midwest

A collision between a small and baby stranded in a
bus and an SUV in Minne- truck inundated by rising
sota killed a 47-year-old waters Friday. Dramatic
woman on the bus and in- video posted to Facebook
jured nine others Thursday. showed crews working
A second person died in to reach the truck as wa-
central Minnesota after be- ter reached the vehicle’s
ing struck on a road by a windshield.
pickup with a plow blade. The storm system was
In North Dakota, a pickup blamed for a death in Loui-
truck driver was killed Thurs- siana earlier this week when
day on a snow-covered a tree fell on a camper.
highway when visibility was Forecasters said up to 5
reduced by blowing snow inches (13 centimeters) of
from a plow, according to rain were possible in north-
the state highway patrol. ern Alabama and central
Another storm dumped up and north Georgia.
to 12 inches (30 centime- Water also flooded more
ters) of rain in Louisiana and than a dozen homes in St.
Mississippi, sweeping away Charles Parish, Louisiana,
cars and forcing some resi- and a Trader Joe’s store
dents to be rescued from near New Orleans lost
their homes before the power during the storm,
rains moved into Alabama, A car fell into this collapsed culvert due to heavy rains on Tommy Butler Road in the Causeyville prompting it to donate per-
Georgia, Tennessee, and Whynot area of Lauderdale County, Miss., Friday, Dec 28, 2018. ishable grocery items to a
western North Carolina on Associated Press food bank.q
Friday. soon to say how many
The National Weather Ser- roads and bridges were
vice posted flash flood damaged or how many
watches and warnings for homes were flooded.
much of the South from Rain-fed rivers were rising
Louisiana into southwest Friday in some New Orleans
Virginia. suburbs north of big Lake
“We had an extreme flash Pontchartrain.
flooding event,” said Glen The St. Tammany Parish
Moore, the emergency government told residents
management director in of neighborhoods along
Forrest County, in south- both sides of the Tchefunc-
western Mississippi, which te River to consider volun-
saw 9 inches (23 centi- tary evacuation because
meters) fall over 12 hours of the possibility of flooding
through early Friday. Friday night and Saturday.
Authorities had to res- The parish also declared an
cue residents from about emergency to coordinate
25 area homes in Forrest local, state and federal re-
County, Moore said. sources.
They rescued one man North of St. Tammany Par-
whose car was swept ish in Washington Parish,
away after he went around Parish President Richard
a barricade on a flooded N. Thomas said in a Face-
road, Moore said. book message that 10 to 13
“He was able to make inches of rain had caused
it outside of the car and flash floods in the Bogalusa,
latch onto a tree until we Varnado and Angie areas,
could get a boat to him,” and some people had to
Moore said. be rescued.
Mississippi officials warned There was one death in
that flood levels on some Tennessee where a woman
rivers in the state could be fell into a rain rain-swollen
high, especially if the fore- creek near Chattanooga.
cast for more rain through Authorities who recovered
Tuesday holds up. Some the woman’s body Friday
levels could match a 2016 morning about three hours
flood that led to a federal after she lost her footing
disaster declaration, said said she had been camp-
Greg Flynn, the state’s ing in a cave with friends
Emergency Management and they were trying to
Agency spokesman. leave the area when she
He said survey teams were fell into the water.
still assessing damage from Rescue workers in north
flash flooding in southern Georgia used a ladder and
Mississippi and it was too ropes to get to a woman