BATON ROUGE, La.—Emergency crews worked through the night to rescue scores of south Louisiana residents from homes and stranded cars as deadly flooding continued to inundate large swaths of the region Sunday, three days after rain-swollen water levels began rapidly rising.
From the air homes in southwest Louisiana looked more like little islands surrounded by flooded fields. Farmland was covered, streets descended into impassable pools of water, shopping centers were inundated with only roofs of cars peeking above the water.
In this aerial photo over Robert, La., stranded people wait on flooded U.S. Route 190 after heavy rains inundating the region on Aug. 13, 2016. AP Photo/Max Becherer
