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Flood Victims { 24 images } Created 29 Oct 2017

Portraits of victims of the 1000-yar flood in the Baton Rouge area in Louisiana. Some of them featured in a Weather Channel feature story. A YEAR IN THE AFTERMATH http://features.weather.com/a-year-in-the-aftermath/
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  • Ervin Coleman-  A disabled pastor, <br />
who lives with wife and son. They recently got a FEMA trailer which they can use for 18 months while they rebuild thier home.
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  • Mo Nguyen- 80 years old- lives a lone-Auto mechanic shop behind house-also ruined. <br />
Has FEAM trailed for two weeks but still no power for it.
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  • Kent and  Carrie Keeton and son Gabriel - Renters. <br />
Ken-a former marine staid with family in home and started fixing it rights away. His landlord loves him. <br />
Have photos of him with landlord too. Carrie is home schooling Gabriel-5. He is standing on the pile of his family’s contents. <br />
Renters stuff isn’t taken away. Landlord has to arrange speical serivces- but Ken got a mvoing machnene and moved next door to save landlord money.
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  • Kent and  Carrie Keeton and son Gabriel - Renters. <br />
Ken-a former marine staid with family in home and started fixing it rights away. His landlord loves him. <br />
Have photos of him with landlord too. Carrie is home schooling Gabriel-5. He is standing on the pile of his family’s contents. <br />
Renters stuff isn’t taken away. Landlord has to arrange speical serivces- but Ken got a mvoing machnene and moved next door to save landlord money.
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  • O'neil Couvillion, inside his home- which can't be fixed. O'neil Couvillion, his wife and his cat are are lucky to bo be alive after the 1000-year flood ravaged the area in Denham Springs where they lived. While the Couvillions escaped the rising water, their cat, Dumb-Dumb, an outdoor kitty, remained. When the O'neil's returned for the first time Dumb-Dumb wasn't around- but the second time they came back Dumb-Dumb showed up. O'niel renamed Dumb-Dumb. Kitty-Cat. SInce Dumb-Dumb survived the flood, that name no longer fit. The Couvillion's home is a total loss. It is structualy damaged.
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  • Chris and Brenda Guidry's house in Denham Springs.
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  • Sept. 2, 2016 Frank Bonifay inside his flooded home about 20 miles south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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  • Carletta Cannon, victem of the 1000-year flood that hit Louisiana, surveys the extensive damage to her home and belongings on Sept. 3, 2016 in the Townhomes of Sherwood Forest complex in Baton Rouge. Cannon has been displaced by the flood and said all of her clothes were destroyed.
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  • Sept 25, Denham Springs, The contents from Zanie Whitehead’s home and those of her neighbors remain on Chaperral Drive six weeks after the flood, a street that Donald Trump visited with Mike Pence on August 19.
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  • Aug 18, Tamara William's, a journalist at the Rouge Collection, holds a baby snake found  in her bedroom while her family cleans up their flooded home in Glen Oaks, Baton Rouge, an African American Neighborhood that was badly hit by the historic Louisiana floods
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  • Aug 18, Esther Williams-Moore cleaning things she is able to save from her  in Glen Oaks Baton Rouge home. <br />
Her faith gives her strength. She pointed to a scrap of paper pinned to a bulletin board in her house that was untouched by the flood that says  Proverb 3:5,6,7 Trust Jehovah, Lean not to (My) own understand acknowledge him in all.
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  • Aug 19, Roxanna Johnson in front of her flooded home in East Fariline, a subdivision in Baton Rouge, surveying her block. She was rescued by boat. She said boats from differnt parishes appeared to rescue her and her neighborhoods and she is greatful for that.
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  • Roxanna Johnson in front of her flooded home in East Fariline, a subdivision in Baton Rouge, surveying her block.
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  • Iris Puris in front of her flooded home in Baton Rouge while it is being gutted.
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  • Sonia Vincent and her father Leroy James in her flooded home in East Fariline, a subdivision in Baton Rouge. Vincent and her family members are staying in the house as they try to fix it becuase they have no where else to go. FEMA visited her but didnt' tell her how much money she would get to assist her in getting back on her feet yet.
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  • Adrianna Norwood and her two sons sit on her destroyed car in front of the flooded home she rents, with nowhere to go. The main shelters turned them away because they were full, so they slept in a different church every night until her son who has epilepsy had two convulsions. Only then was the family taken in at the Medical Special Needs Shelter at the LSU where her son could get medical help
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  • Frank Bonifay on Ridge Road in Ascension Parish on August 26, following the 1000 year flood.
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  • Daniel Meaux enroled in  the 'Shelter at home" program. with a new sink and hot plate given to a him following the 1000 year flood that hit the Baton Rouge .
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  • Kent and  Carrie Keeton and son Gabriel - Renters. <br />
Ken-a former marine staid with family in home and started fixing it rights away. His landlord loves him. <br />
Have photos of him with landlord too. Carrie is home schooling Gabriel-5. He is standing on the pile of his family’s contents. <br />
Renters stuff isn’t taken away. Landlord has to arrange speical serivces- but Ken got a mvoing machnene and moved next door to save landlord money.
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  • Chris and Brenda Guidry's house in Denham Springs. Contents destroyed by the flood and debris from gutting their house remains out in front. The pile upset's Brenda. She finds it difficult to come back and work on the house and be faced with all of her memories in the trash out in front. The family is staying in an apartement in Baton Rouge while they fix  their home. They hope to be back inseid in a couple of weeks. Both have jobs, one kid in school, so getting the house fixed is difficult. They had flood insuarnce but still have to pay for many things out of pocket since most of the belongings were destroyed.
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  • Hilton Kelley in front of the temporary Hurrican Harvey debris dumpsite on 19th Street in Port Arthur, Texas. Kelley, an envirnemental activist fought the city to move the dump that was permitted across the street from residences.
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  • Tami Thomas-Pinkney with her daughter Trinity Handy on their front lawn in Port Arthur, Texas, across from one of the city’s temporary dumpsites.
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  • All that the Keetons lost in the flood is taking a toll on Kent, though he keeps his chin up for his family. He is thankful the storm didnt take them away from him and hopes things will turn around soon.
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  • O'neil Couvillion in his gutted home almost a year after the 1000 year flood. He is still waitting on a contracter to rebuild their home in Denham Springs. O’neil is anxious for the work to begin.
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