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flooding as it creeps slowly inland from the gulf of mexico. this isn t over just yet. the storm hit louisiana as a hurricane, the first of this atlantic season, leaving tens of thousands without power. natasha chen reports from franklin, louisiana. reporter: we re hearing from the st. mary parish emergency officials that on sunday they got at least 7 inches of rain, more rain than they got during the entire barry event the day before. really the problem has come the day after the storm came through. we ll show you what the flooding looks like here in franklin. this is supposed to be their parking lot but this is what flooded after barry saturday night into sunday. of course they were very much prepared for this. the barricade that we re looking at has been here for years, but we did see a lot of folks bringing in extra gravel, plugging holes, so they were prepared for this flooding to get much worse. now, this is all coming from a drainage canal that they are hoping will recede
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there are some homes in franklin also being threatened because of the flash flooding. we visited nearby glennco, louisiana as well. that is an area that had to be evacuated saturday night because of flooding issues. we saw one home that was completely ripped apart because of the strong winds of barry. we talked to justice colbert who was sitting in the carport at the time. he said his sister was in the home when the wind struck and broke all the windows and then came running outside. here s what he said. it sounded like a train to me. some people said when you hear a train, it s a tornado. but it did sound like a train coming through. and you heard the glass breaking? yes, ma am, all the windows started coming back. kitchen windows. bathroom windows. all of it started coming out. colbert told us he s been in that home for about 40 years and now he s staying with other family members. a lot of people affected not only by the wind damage but by
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floodwaters. authorities are concerned with trying to keep those waters out of people s homes and working hard with utility crews, of course, to restore power to everyone. in franklin, louisiana, natasha chen. interesting to see that in franklin. my wife s uncle is from franklin. talking about the floods there, they dread this time of year. just the floods can be problematic. of course. he s saying things are right now then. not as bad as they could have been, even though we saw from natasha s report that things are pretty horrible. our meteorologist pedram javaheri is here to tell us what s going on in franklin and around the area. this is one of the most interesting tropical storms we ve tracked in a long time. a lot of that has to do with where the convection or the thunderstorm activity is. the center of circulation works its cross away portions of southern arkansas at this hour, but all the thunderstorm activity sits to its east and some to its south. really not around whe
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