Southeast Louisiana: See Flood Warnings issued by NWS. A strong cold front is expected to be followed by strong northerly winds that will create hazardous wave conditions for small craft Saturday night into Sunday.
· Issued 71,576 bottles of water.
· Issued 576 MREs to Winn Parish.
· Rescued 4,259 people, 354 pets and 16 livestock.
· Will continue to deploy HWVs and PAX to support Evacuation in addition to Search and Rescue efforts in the parishes. Continue to transport Sandbags and logistics to parishes as needed.
· Working to reinforce levees in Ouachita Parish and working with officials to provide assessment and planning for Natchitoches Parish.
· Detailed reports of rescues can be found in WebEOC.
· Troop E DOTD is discussing closing La. 8 at Little River Bridge in LaSalle Parish, due to debris impacting the bridge supports. If this is closed, traffic will be diverted to US 84 in Jena to LA 28 east of Jena.
· DOTD crews (approximately 1,000 employees) are deployed throughout the affected areas.
· DOTD Hammond Area District (62) is coordinating with LSP and MDOT to monitor the potential impact of the forecast crest of the Pearl River on I-10 near the LA/MS state line with regard to traffic control and public information needs. DOTD issued a press release to notify the public that it may be necessary to close I-10 and I-59 due to the river crest.
· In Process: supply, deliver, and install reclaimed asphalt to create additional parking areas at two (2) POD sites in Vernon parish.
· In Process: supply and deliver 3,750 linear feet of hesco baskets from Camp Minden to the Tensas Levee District. 3,300 feet will augment an existing seawall and the remaining 450 feet will be used to create a temporary levee.
· In Process: supply and deliver sand to Natchitoches Parish Detention Center for sandbag filling operation. Initial delivery will be 200 cubic yards, then as needed thereafter.
· Initial feedback from district field crews indicates there are approximately 35 road washouts. Additionally, currently deployed district and HQ bridge inspections crews will be providing specific feedback in the next few days on the number of and level of damage to bridges in affected areas.
· DOTD/FHWA Damage Assessment Teams will deploy tomorrow to begin conducting full damage surveys in the Monroe and Shreveport Area Districts. On the days which follow, the teams will also cover the Chase and Alexandria Area Districts.
· Emergency Declaration signed by COL Cross on 09 Mar 2016; EOC activated.
· Provided 1500 LF HESCO from Vidalia to Tensas Levee District through GOHSEP WEBEOC.
· Lock 2, Pearl River, Bush, LA: Reduced head differential on the lock gate, no issues at this time. Continuing to monitor the lock. Concern is the structure is very old and experiencing record water levels.
· Monroe, LA: Assisting in floodwall operations. There is seepage in certain areas of the floodwall. We are working to assist Monroe in sealing those areas. Floodwalls sealed up to 50' river stage.
· Red Chute Bayou, Bossier City, LA: As of 1500, 14 March 2016, no overtopping of levee. Seepage through sandbags, locals are reinforcing. Continuing to conduct 24 hour operations to monitor levee system. Continuing to provide technical assistance to Bossier Levee District PAO and Area commander participates in daily Bossier Parish EOC meeting. On 12 March 2016, PAO and Area commander participated in a press conference with the Bossier Parish Sheriff, Mayor, and Parish Police Jury. PAO and Area commander conducted separate interviews with KTBS (ABC affiliate), KSLA and KTAL. Provided info/updates to CBS Evening News and KTBS throughout the day on 12 March 2016.
· Inmates are assisting Public Works with building sandbag levee to augment Deborah Lake Levee that protects south end of River Oaks subdivision.
· The Bureau of Media and Communications (BMAC) has prepared and distributed notices related to flood water safety and other safety issues for the general public.
· Golden Age Nursing Home in Denham Springs had evacuated 13 most critical (red) residents to Harvest Manor a sister facility in Denham Springs. These patients have been returned to the facility. Amite River levels continue to be monitored. No additional resources have been requested.
· There was a levee breach in Richland Parish earlier this morning. It was determined that there were no nursing homes or hospitals in danger of evacuating from the breach.
· 54 Public Water Systems currently on boil water advisory. 20 have been cleared.
· 13 cemeteries are being monitored. All parish authorities are aware and are stating that they have the resources required to handle the situations. ESF 8 has put several SMEs and resources on stand-by if needed. The Federal ESF 8 is updated as information changes.
· Working with ARC and GOHSEP to maintain a current shelter count for the State; as of 1200. there are 10 Parish shelters; 7 ARC shelters; total of 17 shelters with a pop = 226. Detailed shelter reports can be found in WebEOC.
· Continuing to work with ESF – 7 on providing resources.
· DCFS is working to prepare for SNAP Replacement and DSNAP if requested. We are coordinating with pre-determined DSNAP sites and if DSNAP is requested by Parish we will coordinate with OEP Directors to ensure we are using site OEP recommends. DCFS is also coordinating with other ESF leads in for preparing for possible DSNAP operations.
· Coordinated with ESF6 Branch Manager regarding showers for Lillie Marbles. Parish is working on arranging a city bus to take residents to Saul Adler to shower.
· Worked with DCFS, DRO MC Leadership and NSS Leadership on updating shelter population counts and closures.
· Red Cross DA began in Shreveport and Nachitoches areas.
· ARC will be engaging our EMDAC (Emergency Management Disability and Aging Coalition) Partner Members starting today. (3/14/16) The EMDAC members will be starting on the Northshore to begin conducting FNSS assessments in our Red Cross shelters. Further plans are being developed to move toward the Southwest and Northern part of the State.
· ARC will be using local vendor to feed 30 people in a shelter in Richland Parish that evacuated due to levee breach.
· OSFM Personnel assisting with evacuations and monitoring open shelters.
· LWIN Statewide Interoperability Talkgroups *Interop-3 and *Interop-4 assigned to Tangipahoa and Washington Parishes for flood response operations have been released.
· *Interop-4 has been assigned to St. Tammany Parish for State and Local flood response coordination Monday March 14th, 2016 - TFN.
· Per Ponchatoula Fire Marshal, we are working with officials to de-energize the following areas in Ponchatoula: S. Thibodeaux Road; N. Thibodeaux Road; & possibly Brown Road. However, even with the assistance of city officials in conjunction with GOHSEP, we may not be able to gain access to the needed equipment in order to limit the outages – in this case we will need to de-energize everything east of Brown Road on Hwy 22, which would affect 1,401 customers.
· Cleco is assessing customers in Beauregard and Vernon Parishes today and power will be restored to those customers that can take power safely. They are monitoring customers near the Pearl River in the Slidell area in St. Tammany Parish, as well as the Calcasieu River in Oakdale and Kinder areas in Allen Parish for potential flooding. They are continuing to work with the mayor of Merryville in the event they have to disconnect customers in that town.
o 40 barrels of crude oil released due to firewall breach in Bossier Parish. Oil was non-recoverable.
o Oil condensate release in Lincoln Parish. Boom and pads where deployed to recover the condensate.
o Oil condensate release in Lincoln Parish. The condensate was non-recoverable. A follow up is being done today.
o A reported crude oil release in Caddo Parish. At time of site visit there was no evidence of a release.
o A report of an oil tank leaking by a search and rescue team in Bossier Parish. The site was visited but there was no release of gas or oil; however, saltwater was released.
· Flood damaged universities include: Grambline State University, Southeastern University, Northwest LA Technical College, LA Delta Community College, LA Technical Community College, River Parishes Community College, Northshore technical Community College, Louisiana Tech University and Northwestern State University.
· Monroe Corps providing meals and snacks at Lillie Marble Recreation Center.
· Team Rubicon - will come in for assessment after weather subsides.
· Advocacy Center - on standby for requests to assist with disability issues.
· Convoy of Hope: assessments will begin when the weather subsides and debris removal operations should begin sometime next week.
· United Ways of Louisiana launched a flood fund to support recovery efforts.
· ReachGlobal Crisis Response will be responding to the needs through the local churches.
· Acadian Search & Rescue is planning to deploy teams this weekend for clean-up. also able to clear roads, evacuation, and perform search and rescue operations if needed.
· The LA BEOC has 13,100 registered contacts representing 2,243 businesses and have been posting Incident SITREPS daily at labeoc.org to provide businesses with the most updated information.
· Personnel are maintaining communications with the State EOC operations staff.
· DWLF, APSO, Parish Fire Districts, and EOC are coordinating efforts for SAR operations.
· Oakdale SAR operations has stood down.
· 20 rescues and 16 assisted evacuations.
· Operations moved to Kinder to monitor possible evacuations/SAR missions as the flooding is threatening approximately 84 structures.
· Sand bags distributed at the parish maintenance facility on 2346 Valley Street in Mansura. Must bring their shovel or a way to fill them.
· EOC is at partial activation.
· Evacuations in Merryville and along the Sabine River is in progress, approximately 600 thus far.
· Search and rescue was continued along the river bottom and there were approximately 100 people rescued by BPSO, LDWF and LANG.
· The State has made emergency repairs to provide communications from Merryville back to the BPSO and 911 center. The action will remain intact till normal service can be reinstalled.
· 75 homes with water, about 15 of them with 18" or more.
· DRC location: Bossier City Public Training Complex 5850 Shed Rd. Bossier City. POC: Ian Snellgrove.
· Received Federal Declaration. Issued a press release about I/A. Preparing for kick off meeting.
· BSO conducted approximately 1,000 rescues.
· The Red River is rising and water is struggling to get out creating a back flooding event from the red river situation now as the parish water tries to evacuate our parish into the red river below lock and dam # 5.
· Sangbad locations: Elm Grove School & Koran Library for residents of Lake Bistineau. Distributed approximately 275,000 sandbags.
· South Bossier Fire Department and BSP will notify residents in High Island in Loggy Bayou that higher water may occur.
· 100+ animals in animal shelter in Bossier City.
· Caddo EOC at 24-hour Full Activation.
· Red Cross shelter at Southern University is still open. Bulk items are being stored at Grace Temple Full Gospel Church open from 10 am to 3 pm. The next step will be damage assessments to the affected homes.
· Parish PW may provide additional sandbags to MLK area to support Shreveport. The City of Shreveport's sandbag operation is still open, although there have been fewer pick-ups. May go from 24 hour to normal business hours today at 3825 Old Mansfield Rd.
· SPD and SFD are going door-to-door daily to check on residents. Many of those homes remain vacant from last year's river flooding.
· Areas of concern near levee have been stabilized. All pumping operations have been completed.
· Sandbagging operations are ongoing (areas around Caddo lake, Mooringsport and Oil City.
· Continuing to document for FEMA. Creating maps for PDA Teams. Completed aerial drone flight by Texas A&M.
· Attended VOAD meeting to work out details for setting up the MARC, and to set up website and phone numbers for volunteers.
· Current ongoing voluntary evacuation for all citizen west of Hwy 109 from North of Parish line to Old Hwy 90 south of the parish.
· Establishing another shelter, pet shelter established by Calcasieu Animal Control with Gen Pop shelter.
· Public Health assessing special needs patients as general population shelter.
· Calcasieu Parish Sheriff department established two staging areas, one on Hwy 109 in Vinton and one on Hwy 12 in Starks.
· CPSO has set up check points and criminal patrols (residents only, restricted access). Also established two staging areas in Vinton and Starks.
· CPSO performed 11 rescues.
· Established communications plan and daily planning meeting.
· Shelters: Caldwell Parish Recreation Center, Outreach Baptist Church, Life Church, and Crossroads Baptist.
· FALSE report of levee breach and rushing water at Herbert community. So, LANG and LDWF assisted in voluntary evacuations of the area.
· Sandbag operations at the Police Jury Road Department in Grand Cane and at the Desoto Parish Fire District 1 Central Station in Logansport.
· EOC has set up a hotline for flood damage reporting (318) 872-1939.
· EOC staffed with essential personnel and activated Crisis Action team.
· Parish is populating the database with impacted areas utilizing the 311 System, coordinated a medical pick up, and also coordinating with American Red Cross to put shelters on standby.
· Sandbagging Operations Continue in New areas the Big Creek @hy132 is approaching multiple Homes. The bayou Macon At hy 861 sandbagging in the area. The Boeuf River at Lliddelville is flooding homes in the L R Hatton rd.
· Sand bag locations: Bynum Fire Station, Grant Parish Civic Center, Zig Slayter Ballpark in Prospect, Bob Fire Station.
· Placed sandbags around the Grant Parish Detention Facility..
· A more thorough assessment was conducted at the Rigolette Control Structure reported earlier. LANG and parish officials determined that closing the gap would increase the strain on the structure itself and would do more harm than good. 32 supersacks of sand brought via trucks and helicopters and lower the flow of the area that was breached. It will not be completely cutoff.
· Increased monitoring is being conducted regarding Nantachie Lake. Sandbags are now being placed at the Nantachie Fire Station and are constantly being stocked.
· Bottled water continues to be distributed to the Nelms Loop Community due to the water outage. It also is being brought to the Claudes Road region off of Iatt Lake. West Grant Water who provides water services there advises that they only have one customer out but are expecting more as the water rises. I spoke with officials there this morning and they are going to contact Central Grant Water and see if they need assistance restoring water to the Nelms Loop community.
· Water in approximately 50 homes.
· EOC is at Crisis Action Team Level and are operating at normal business hours at this time.
· Jena Band of Choctaws Indians have placed two families that were displaced in vacant mobile homes that the Choctaw Indian's had available.
· Around 46 residents are without power due to high waters within LaSalle Parish.
· During the fly over of LaSalle today to count the total amount of inundated structures, we were able to count 90-100 structures that where inundated with high waters due to this event.
· Belah Fellowship Water System has issued a boil advisory for south and west of Alice Road due to high waters in the area. Water will be restored with the water recedes.
· LaSalle Parish EOP & Communications District are currently working on mapping all flooded structures within LaSalle Parish, due to Old River now currently rising these areas/structures may increase.
· Sandbags available to residents while supplies last. Location list can be found in WebEOC. APSO providing inmate labor for sandbagging operations (sandbag machine sent to Parish Prison).
· Road barricades have been placed in several areas.
· Rescues taken place for residents around Little Prairie Bridge.
· Approximately 140 homes have been damaged (not final estimate).
· Sandbags handed out at the parish barn. Volunteers have been assisting with sandbag operations. Ongoing but slowing down.
· Sheriff Department and Public Works monitoring vulnerable roads in high water areas.
· The Weir on Lake Irwin in Morehouse Parish has been compromised but there is no way to get equipment into the area to repair it, have made request for air support to survey damage.
· Evacuated approximately 1000 citizens.
· A large culvert has washed out on Tauzain Island Road.
· Levees are being monitored frequently.
· Rescue efforts are ongoing.
· Cattle rescued from I-49 between exits 119 & 127.
· 100 plus families have been evacuated. Evacuations ongoing in the northern part of the Parish.
· Entergy New Orleans has resources available to respond to potential outages. We have a LNO from them on standby throughout the weekend.
· Cox Communications has resources available to respond to potential outages. We have a LNO from them on standby throughout the weekend.
· Distrubuted over 40000 sandbags.
· The Ouachita Parish Sheriff's department boat and dive team responded and secured the boats and barges. There appears to be no major damage, but DOTD is on the way to inspect.
· Conducting sandbagging operations in the Cypress Point area and the Northgate area.
· City of Monroe and LANG currently working to severe a breach near the Town and Country area of Monroe.
· Voluntary evacuations ongoing. Approximately 75 evacuations total.
· Five sandbagging sites are active.
· Richland Parish Detention Center evacuation completed at 23:30. 565 offenders moved to Richwood, LTCW, Madison and Catahoula. Evacuation of the Hebert community continues. Water levels are continually being monitored.
· Levee breach at Lafourche Canal. Immediate evacuation of Richland parish detention center, approx. 550 offenders to Tallulah Detention center. Immediate evacution of the Hebert community, approx 750 people affected.population is being sheltered in Rayville at the Richland Community Center with an overflow shelter in Mangham.
· Starting damage reports; damage consists of mostly roads and bridges thus far.
· LANG detail was transferred to Livingston Parish.
· 1 home, 5 mobile homes, and several parish buildings have minor damage. Still assessing damages.
· Voluntary evacuation in low-lying areas in or around Three Rivers Road, North of I-12 to Ronald Regan Highway, South to Madisonville, on the East side to 190 and on the West side to Highway 21.
· Due to suspected inundation of the well head, a precautionary BOIL ADVISORY is being issued for the above water system.
· As of 1130, March 12, 1st Responders have performed over 600 rescues. Rescue operations continue.
· EOC will relocate to the Towers building in Slidell in advance of the expected Pearl River Crest.
· City of Pearl has called for evacuations of homes along Pearl River.
· Call center established to address influx of citizens questions regarding Pearl River IA.
· Approximately 614 structures have sustained damaged so far. More expected to be reported.
· Two caskets dislodged from a family cemetery on Bonner Rd., were secured by Jeane's Funeral home, Leesville. Another cemetery on Jarrell Loop is flooded; however, no caskets have become dislodged. Coordination is ongoing with the Vernon Parish Coroner's Office to address the issues related to the cemeteries. Marking of graves in the cemetery on Bonner Rd. has been postponed based on current flood estimates.
· Shelters, one at Franklinton High School and the second at the Methodist Church in Bogalusa.
· Two state interop channels have been requested and assigned to coordinate state/local response assets. *Interop 3 has been assigned to Tangipahoa Parish and *Interop 4 has been assigned to Washington Parish.
· SAR missions in numerous subdivisions and conducting rescues near Hwy 1075 and HWY 1.
· The structural integrity of the WP Jail has possibly been compromised and will require inspection.
· We have crews actively removing water from the WP Courthouse basement as the level of the river remains above the level of the basement.
· Their sewer lift station at the end of Pearl is only accessible by boat and the sewer treatment plant behind Riverside Medical Center is inundated by flood waters. The Public Works Director will be assessing these two by boat as soon as safely possible.
· Actively working on damage assessments and are awaiting ARC assessment teams.
· Approximately 416 damaged homes.
· Approximately 200 citizens have been evacuated.
· PDA teams have been requested. Residents are calling to report damages.
· 75 homes have damage, 1 business and 1 public building have damage and an additional 45 homes have been affected.