by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 20, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“I had to swim through the dirty water for help. I didn’t think about it. This is not my first flood. I lived in Africa my whole life and have seen worse than this. We were living in Congo and in 2005, we moved to Zimbabwe. My father was in the military...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 19, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“The flood happened Friday. We couldn’t come back until Monday. We didn’t have clothes to wear. We worked here Tuesday and Wednesday all day taking everything out. We are staying at a church. We have no where to go. We didn’t save anything but a little bit of clothes....
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 19, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“The rain came down so hard that it felt like someone was dumping buckets of water. It kept on like that and sounded like hail on my roof. I live alone and my neighbor called me about 7 a.m. and told me to get out. People were wading out of their houses....
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 19, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“We knew the rain was coming. I was going to work the next day, so I made me a stick to put in the yard. I thought it would just flood a little bit and everything would be alright, but it wasn’t alright. The water started coming up on that stick and I knew...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 19, 2016 | A Southern Soul
“I woke up at 7 on Saturday morning, the water was coming up really fast. It looked like an ocean. I got the attention of my neighbors and they backed in and picked me up with a few of my bags. It took a while to get off of Amite Church Road. Everyone was...
