BATON ROUGE - Wednesday marks the ninth anniversary of the beginning of a weather event that changed the state, devastated lives and permanently altered the way floods are viewed in South Louisiana. 

Aug. 13, 2016, was the start of the Great Flood of 2016 that left half the state underwater. 

Houses were destroyed and livelihoods were lost in the rains and waters that inundated the state. 

This morning on 2une In, JP and April Davis looked back on WBRZ's coverage of the event with Pat Shingleton, and how the community came together to raise each other above the water in the aftermath.