‘These people went through a lot:’ Capital area groups gather 2016 flood firsthand accounts

BATON ROUGE – Archivists and documentarians in the capital region are currently working to record accounts of the Flood of 2016 before the memories are forgotten.

Groups like the East Baton Rouge Public Library and Louisiana Public Broadcasting are among several organizations working to get firsthand accounts of the once-in-a-generation storm.

“We found out later that the people who had stayed had been stranded for days without power,” Jordan Courtney, a man who lived through the flood, told WBRZ on Tuesday…

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