Evacuations Lifted In Louisiana Dam Failure
The Weather Channel
3 hrs ago
Jan Wesner Childs
Hundreds of people ordered to evacuate from a rural community in southern Louisiana after a flood barrier known as an AquaDam failed and water began pouring over a roadway have been allowed to return home.
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"The mandatory evacuation order that was in place for the Bayou Sorrel and Bayou Pigeon area has been lifted," the Iberville Parish Council announced in a Facebook post at about 6 p.m. CDT Friday. "Stay STRONG Iberville!"
The evacuations were ordered at about 10 a.m. CDT Friday for several hundred homes in the area, about 34 miles southwest of Baton Rouge in Iberville Parish.