Dramatic video shows 100 employees of flooded Mississippi casino rescued by high-water vehicle after they were stranded for seven hours thanks to 5ft surge caused by Tropical Storm Cristobal as system moves up north

Rescue workers took seven hours to evacuate up to 100 employees from a southern Mississippi casino that was flooded by 1. 5-meter waves caused by Tropical Storm Cristobal on Sunday. Dramatic video taken by employees at the Silver Slipper Casino in Bay St. Louis shows workers being evacuated in their cars after being stranded by high waves. Casino employee Joeneka Willis told WGNO-TV that she and a coworker drove to work separately on Sunday and parked on different streets.

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Cars evacuate employees from a flooded southern Mississippi casino on Sunday.

More than 1. 5-meter waves caused heavy flooding on Sunday near the Silver Slipper Casino in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Casino employees waited several hours before evacuating.

One of the evacuating employees captured video of the inspection on his personal cell phone on Sunday. It took about seven hours to evacuate the stranded employees in emergency vehicles.

After this, the workers boarded shuttles that were meant to take them to the casinos.

But just before 9 a. m., the shuttles got stuck in the water, and the stranded workers immediately called for reinforcements.

Rescuers using aerial work platforms arrived at 4 p. m. No casualties were reported.

On Sunday, Cristobal struck the coast of Louisiana, flooding the coast and causing severe weather along much of the Gulf Coast. It sent waves crashing onto Mississippi beaches, flooding parts of a major island city in Alabama, and spawning tornadoes in Florida.

Heavy rains and storm surges continued to threaten the broad coastline as Cristobal made landfall on Sunday afternoon, with wind gusts of up to 50 mph (80 kph) between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the already-evacuated seaside resort of Grand Isle on the barrier peninsula.

As of 5 a. m. EST on Sunday, the storm was centered about 65 kilometers north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with the maximum vortex speed reaching 56 kilometers per hour. It is moving north-northwest at 10 miles per hour.

Cristobal's remnants could bring rain for several days. Monitoring shows it will flow through Arkansas and Missouri on Tuesday, then through Illinois and Wisconsin before reaching the Great Lakes.

"That's pretty efficient, pretty tropical rain," said Ken Graham, director of the state hurricane center, in a video clip on Facebook.

"It's coming down pretty fast."

Forecasters say some areas could get up to 30 centimeters of rain.

On Sunday, with the waves of Bran New Orleans's Storm Halter, a friend of his friend Erin Show (second from the left), Britani Shamp's back (second from the right), and Selfie with Chris Baker (right frontman). Daniel Lebran.

Erin Show (left) and Britani Shansback standing nearby

Standing on a pier near the port of Lake Ponchart Rain in New Orleans on Sunday, the waves are broken.

On Sunday, the waves were broken on the pier of Penchensacol Beach, Penzacol, Florida, and the red flag fluttered in the wind.

Visitors who see the tropical storm "Christobal" on Sunday at Pennsacol Beach, Pennisacol, Florida

David Richard, who knows how he handed the tornado that destroyed his living space in Orlando on Sunday

Mr. Jose Pico, who collects luggage from a house destroyed by Orlando's tornado

The tornado, which was caused by the tropical storm "Christival", attacked at least eight houses in Florida, which was damaged.

A woman who deletes a fragment of her home ensemble during the removal result of Christicals in Orlando on Sunday

Cristobal tornado was attacked by Orlando, and the storeroom and fence were destroyed.

As a result, the tornado, which turned several houses in Orlando, Florida on Sunday, did not hurt anyone.

A worker who repairs the collapsed house while removing the tornado that occurred in Orlando, Florida on Sunday.

The fire environment orange can help the family stand on the roof of a house where the tree has fallen on Sunday in Orlando.

Residents are investigating the damage of an apartment by a tornado that occurred in Orlando, Florida on Sunday.

The Japan Meteorological Agency is a different test for a difficult pump system designed to promote the flooding of rivers in the center of the Mexico Bay coast and in the Mississippi Plain and remove floods from fresh Orleans. He warned that it would be.

Mississippi's coastal news media reports about the floods and trucks that floods flooded on the coast and collapsed on the highway.

On a page of Facebook's Biroksy Metropolis, authorities said that the rescue squad had surely helped dozens of automotive drivers and overcome floods.

In Alabama, a bridge connecting the continent and the Dofin Peninsula was covered with huge fractions on Sunday.

Police and State Affairs' cars guided a roun d-trip train to the peninsula as the weather allowed.

Gulf Shores, Alabama, saw some sunshine on Monday morning, but conditions improved as rain clouds passed and people walked on the beach.

In Louisiana, the waters of Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans rose, sending about 60 centimetres of water over the first floor of Rudy Horvath's home, a boathouse built on stilts above the brackish lake.

Horvath said he and his family have lived here for a year and learned to deal with occasional flooding. They put tables on the first floor and stacked things above water level.

"I thought it would be really cool to live here, and it was," Horvath said. "The sunsets are just amazing."

The U. S. Coast Guard said it was searching for two people who went out to sea in a 6-foot yellow boat near Slidell, Louisiana, on Sunday afternoon and never returned.

Cristobal, which had weakened to a tropical storm, moved northward since Monday morning.

Wind gusts of 11 to 38 kph were recorded along the Gulf Coast on Monday morning.

Meteorologists said the storm was moving northwest at 24 kph. It is expected to pass through Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin.

Severe weather could continue through Monday evening in much of Mississippi and Alabama, and parts of Tennessee and Louisiana.

Severe weather is expected Tuesday across the Midwest from Lincoln, Nebraska to Ohio.

Rain is expected to hit much of the eastern half of the Lower 48 through Wednesday.

Meanwhile, flood warnings have been issued for the Mississippi River basin.

The search for Ted Roach and Jennifer Lingoni involves helicopters and local authorities, the Coast Guard said in a statement.

Elsewhere in south Louisiana, water covered the only roads into low-lying parts of Grand Isle and Plaquemine Parishes in the southeastern part of the state.

You can't drive there," shrimper Acey Cooper said Sunday about one of the area's marinas.

You have to get there by boat."

In New Orleans' famed French Quarter, rain fell intermittently Sunday afternoon, but the streets were mostly deserted, and many businesses had already closed because of the coronavirus.

Daniel Priestman said people may be "overwhelmed" by the coronavirus, as well as recent police violence and protests.

They seem to have accepted that "whatever happens, happens," he said.

At an intersection in Fresh Orleans, a homemade Black Lives Matter sign on a streetlight flapped in the wind while a crew in a large vacuum truck was busy unloading a drainage ditch.

The New Orleans Sewerage Department said the antiquated road drainage system has limitations, forcing residents to ignore subways and low-lying areas prone to flooding.

President Trump agreed to make the unusual event in Louisiana public, officials said.

In Florida, a tornado -- the second in two days as the storm approached -- uprooted trees and downed some power lines Sunday afternoon south of Lake City in the Highway 75 area, the weather service and authorities said.

No casualties were reported.

The storm also temporarily closed a flooded section of Highway 10 in north Florida.

Two young brothers were killed when a tornado passed through downtown Orlando on Friday.

Residents in coastal areas of New Orleans outside the levee system bounded by Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne were advised to evacuate Sunday afternoon due to the risk of injury from the expected storm surge.

On Friday, two brothers were swept away by high waves in Grand Isle and were swept overboard while swimming with their family near the beach.

The boys' 12-year-old nephew was still fast asleep and the mother's boyfriend went underwater while trying to rescue the children, but both survived, Fox News reported.

The 12-year-old girl was airlifted to the Institute Medical Center in New Orleans and is expected to arrive soon.

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Louisiana's coastline is already under 10 to 1. 5 feet of water after the Crit Ball struck the US on Sunday.

Parts of Mississippi, including Highway 90 in Long Beach, were flooded by Tropical Storm Cristobal's storm surge.

Tropical Storm Cristobal raged through southeastern Louisiana Sunday night, bringing winds of up to 50 mph, persistent rain showers and the risk of a dangerous storm surge.

Rudy Horvath emerges from his boathouse in New Orleans' West End neighborhood as he watches the storm surge on Lake Pontchartrain ahead of Tropical Storm Cristobal.

A tornado generated by Tropical Storm Cristobal struck Orlando, Florida, damaging homes downtown.

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