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Advocate staff report The state senator who represents St. Bernard Parish and parts of Plaquemine Parish said all of St. Bernard is under water and people are trapped in the roofs of their homes. "There are people in their attics hollering for help," said state Sen. Walter Boasso, who was in the state emergency operations center Monday morning. He said he had been told that "this is worse than Betsy," the hurricane that flooded the same area 40 years ago.
"People are trapped and we cannot get them out," Boasso said. Plans are being made to launch 60 boats into the parish to try to rescue people once the storm has passed, which may be a few more hours, he said.
He said he thinks all four of the oil refineries in the two parishes are probably under water, which could further throw the oil markets into a panic and drive record prices even higher.