Despite the few hours respite our area had this afternoon from the rain, the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office has announced mandatory evacuations for two more subdivisions in Bossier, plus the area immediately around Louisiana Downs.
Our friend, Ryan Zeidan, at SkyPixel LA shot a video yesterday of an aerial view of the Golden Meadow subdivision in Bossier City. You can see residents actually canoeing down the streets!
The level on Cross Lake is expected to top the 177 ft mark. That's the message from Jason Hansford of the National Weather Service. During the record flooding in 1991, Cross Lake reached 176.4 ft. Residents around the lake are bracing for more problems this week.
The Shreveport Cross Lake Patrol has temporarily closed all publicly-operated boat lauches and suspended boat and other watercraft traffic on Cross Lake.
This comes as the result of rising water, making boat launches inaccessible. You...