Red Chute News

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The City of Bossier City is updating residents on many of the parish's weather-related issues and included helpful phone numbers to report damage and problems.

BOSSIER CITY, LA It's another welcome development in the battle to contain the overflowing Red Chute Bayou : The evacuation order for subdivisions in and around the Stockwell subdivision in North Bossier has been lifted.

Following is the status of selected area waterways in the wake of storms that brought two tornadoes and heavy rain Thursday and more rain Friday, setting a new October record for precipitation.

John Thomisee Jr. and his family have lived in a home on Caplis-Sligo Road in south Bossier Parish for 10 years without any flood problems.

The news people living in the Stockwell, Dogwood, Carriage Oaks, and other Bossier City neighborhoods near the Red Chute levee north of Highway 80 finally arrived - go home.

A convoy of sandbags makes its way down the banks of Red Chute Bayou this morning.

A news briefing is under way at this hour to address misinformation that has surfaced concerning Red Chute Bayou flooding in northeast Bossier City.

Residents in nine northeast Bossier subdivisions near Red Chute Bayou should prepare for flooding, and authorities are encourging folks in those areas to leave before the water arrives.

Late Friday night, water from Red Chute Bayou began seeping over the Guideline Levee, and crews worked feverishly to reinforce the structure so it wouldn't breech.

CADDO/BOSSIER PARISH - Emergency officials in Caddo and Bossier Parish fear that Friday's rains will push a pair of waterways past their limits.

Bossier Parish inmates today will continue placing sandbags atop Guide Line Levee, near Dogwood Trail, in anticipation of possible flooding.

The National Weather Service office in Shreveport has issued a severe thunderstorm warning until 11:45 p.m. for parts of east Texas and northwest Louisiana.