Heavy rain ‘could have been worse’

Rains of about 6 inches from Tuesday overnight into Wednesday took a toll on the parish, “but it could have been been a lot worse as everybody knows,” St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard said at Wednesday’s Parish Council meeting in Opelousas. “We did get a lot of water, mainly on the southern side of our parish,” he said. Bellard, in his president’s report at the Council meeting, said,…