TRAGIC: Due to persistent heavy rain in Mississippi, which has resulted in heavy flooding, a resident’s chickens in a backyard drowned.
PICAYUNE, Miss. – Disaster ensued for a resident in Mississippi after heavy rain caused chickens on her property to drown due to flooding.
Video footage shared to Storyful by Kristina Malott shows the wet scene of a front yard completely inundated in heavy flooding.
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Plants are drowned in water, and various items are scattered all around.
Flooded backyard in Mississippi.
(Kristina Malott via Storyful)
“That’s up to my shin,” Malott said while walking through the flooded yard.
Eventually, Mallot walks into a shed that is completely flooded, resulting in the drowning and death of her animals.
“No words. This happened within 30 minutes,” Malott said on Facebook. “Whole downtown was flooded. My chickens drowned. Workshop total loss.”
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Mallot stated in a Facebook post that the heavy flooding also damaged her house.
The woman told Storyful that her yard had flooded before due to drains in the street “not being able to keep up.”
Flooded front yard in Mississippi.
(Kristina Malott via Storyful)
This comes as the National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch in Picayune, Mississippi, until Friday.
Roughly 5 to 8 inches of rainfall has been recorded in the area in the past two days, according to the FOX Forecast Center.
Flood and rain reports over the past 48 hours in Mississippi.
The area has seen several damage reports due to the excessive rainfall.
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As Tropical Storm Arthur has officially developed, many locations in the South will experience flooding over the coming days.
