That number includes homes that were flooded or damaged by falling trees.

Sandy Davis, director of the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said approximately 300 homes in Shreveport received some kind of damage. There were another 50 or so in Caddo Parish and Bossier City, Davis said.

Most of the damage was doing to flooding, police said.

The worst flooding was in Shreveport's South Highland, Mooretown, Broadmoor neighborhoods and in Dixie Garden, an unincorporated neighborhood that is surrounded by the city, where dozens of homes were damaged. A handful of homes flooded in Southern Hills and Summer Grove, Davis said.

Davis said damage-assessment teams from the state and FEMA will survey damaged areas starting Friday morning. If there is enough damage, residents could be eligible for disaster assistance loans. Those are low- to no-interest loans, depending on the person's economic situation. The city could also get government money to pay for cleanup.

Water has receded everywhere except Cross Lake in Shreveport and Wallace Lake south of the city, Davis said.

Cross Lake has not crested and the lake is out of its banks, but it has not gotten high enough to get into homes and neighborhoods around the lake, Davis said. The lake is expected to crest one foot above flood stage.

The situation is much worse at smaller Wallace Lake. It is still rising and is expected to crest four feet above flood stage on Friday. Some homes near the lake have flooded and others are surrounded by water.

Davis said Shreveport-Bossier dodged a potential second calamity when an overnight storm system mostly skirted the metro area. Shreveport-Bossier got approximately half an inch of rain. Some areas of Northwest Louisiana got three times that amount.

"Had that (rainfall) come across us, we would have even more problems than we have," Davis said.