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This article is about someone helping in the recent flooding in Louisiana.  It gives such an interesting account of how the Church organizes and helps in disaster situations.  I hope we all help anytime we have the opportunity! Being a Mormon Helping Hand in the Louisiana Floods By Carolyn Allen  · September 4, 2016 in Meridian Magazine Cover image via LDS Newsroom. Much has been written about the mid-August 2016 flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Though the news of it was slow to hit the media, by now the bizarre conditions that created it, the 11 deaths, the extensive damage to homes and businesses, the billions of dollars of catastrophic damage, and the monumental number of volunteers arriving to “muck out” homes and businesses are starting to surface. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced this past weekend that there is now an estimated 8.7 billion dollars in damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure throughout the ar...