BATON ROUGE, La. -- Like thousands of his neighbors in South Louisiana last August, LSU wide receiver Russell Gage made the panicked decision to help his family escape from their rapidly flooding home.
Seven months after the storms damaged approximately 146,000 homes in the region, the Gages have still not moved back into their house in Baker, about 15 miles north of LSU’s Baton Rouge campus.
“We’re putting the finishing touches on the house and everything, so it’s good,” Gage said Thursday, noting that his family expects to move back into the house in May or June.