Flood-weary Louisiana cleans house while search continues
Sunday, August 21, 2016
ST. AMANT, La. -- Flood-weary residents cleaned out houses Saturday as search parties went door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding so powerful, in some cases it disturbed the dead and sent caskets floating from cemeteries.
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