{"id":786210,"date":"2026-07-26T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786210\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:24:13","slug":"sunday-journal-great-flood-of-2016-10-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/786210\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Journal: Great Flood of 2016, 10 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BATON ROUGE \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrz.com\/news\/wednesday-marks-ninth-anniversary-of-the-start-of-the-great-flood-of-2016\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On Aug. 13, 2016,<\/a> more than half the state was left underwater after unprecedented rainfall caused waterways like the Amite and Comite rivers to surge and flood much of the Capital Area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, 10 years later, WBRZ&#8217;s John Pastorek looks back on the flood that killed more than a dozen people. It was the worst natural disaster in the United States since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of homes and businesses were left under dozens of inches of water, affecting areas that have never flooded before. The 1-in-1,000-year event still affects the Capital Area to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE \u2014 On Aug. 13, 2016, more than half the state was left underwater after unprecedented rainfall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[334460,334462,334459,175082,334461,334463,192,334458,334464,334465,79,185455],"class_list":["post-786210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-10thanniversary","tag-amiteriver","tag-august2016","tag-batonrouge","tag-capitalarea","tag-comiteriver","tag-environment","tag-greatflood2016","tag-johnpastorek","tag-louisianahistory","tag-science","tag-wbrz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}