After the rain stopped and floodwaters begin to recede, some residents were able to get out and look at what the flood left behind in the Tiger Bend area in Baton Rouge.
“It’s a mess,” Laura Brinkley. ” It’s a disaster area obviously, all we can do is make up for what we can.”
Brinkley drove from Dallas with some friends to come help Roxi Parker, a resident of the Tiger Bend area, and her family start the clean-up process.
“We’ve done what we can. We’ve sent out a couple of people to pick up trash, and stuff out there, that was full of trash. My daughter was the first one out there, but there was so many red ants,” Parker said.
Right behind Tiger bend on Antioch Road, the creek ran into the Old Jefferson neighborhood. Residents had to float their belongings out of their homes and up to the side of the road.
Devyn McCray had been in the Old Jefferson neighborhood long enough to make his way down the street to help others out.
“They’re all nice people, thek know me and I know them,” McCray said.
McCray said that he never thought his neighborhood would flood like it did, but then again, it was bound to happen.
“You move next to a creek, it was gone’ happen eventually,” said McCray. “We can bounce back from this, ain’t nothing we can do, it’s in God’s hands.”