The Nation : Storms Plague Louisiana

Five inches of rain fell on northwest Louisiana, flooding 100 homes and businesses and causing the death of a man who was trying to direct traffic around a wreck, officials said. Rain slacked off and floodwaters fell quickly during the afternoon, but forecasters said storms moving from Texas to Arkansas could move in and dump another two inches of rain. That was on top of almost continuous rain for the last eight days, a civil defense spokesman said. He said one boy was pulled from a fast-moving stream in southwest Shreveport, north of the area where a tank truck loaded with milk hit a man who had stopped to flag traffic around a wreck.