Hancock County flooding

In Hancock County, Highway 604, between Highway 607 and Highway 90, remains closed due to flooding. The heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Cindy is wreaking havoc for residents throughout the county.
Some Bay St. Louis residents had a rude awakening Wednesday morning.“The water is coming in from the Gulf and probably in a couple of hours we are going to have at least two or three more feet of water. It’s all under our camp right now and we have two-three feet right now under our camp. We can’t see our warf. It’s going to keep rising, just in the little bit of time that we stopped and got something to drink and came back it rose a couple more inches.”
Sherri Scaife lives nearby on 16th street. She said, “This morning, the water was receding so I thought I could go to work and then my husband called me and sent me a picture and said if I want to come home, I better come home. We didn’t realize it was going to be this bad.”
Scaife eventually made it home, but only after parking with others who were seeking higher ground and hitching rides with others who had big trucks or boats to take them there.
This is only the beginning of Tropical Storm Cindy and there’s already flooding out here in Bay St. Louis about three feet deep. You can already see a lot of damage that has already been done and it can only get worse as the storm strengthens. “It’s supposed to be a falling tide right now. So, if it’s a high tide on a falling tide imagine what it is going to be like in the morning when its high tide,” said Scaife.
Residents are figuring out what they need to do and what actions they need to take to stay safe during Tropical Storm Cindy. Emergency workers are already out in full force patrolling the area, on standby in case they’re needed as these residents who love the water and have made their homes on it prepare for what’s to come as the rain continues to pour down and the water rises.