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New Orleans braces for ‘triple-threat’ Barry: Millions prepare for a Category 1 Hurricane set to hit Saturday morning bringing with it storm surge, high rivers and rain, testing post-Katrina flood defenses
New Orleans braces for ‘triple-threat’ Barry: Millions prepare for a Category 1 Hurricane set to hit Saturday morning bringing with it storm surge, high rivers and rain, testing post-Katrina flood defenses
- Wind and rain began battering Louisiana on Friday as forecasters predict landfall as a hurricane by Saturday
- Forecasters said rain poses the greatest danger as the state experiences a long, slow and thorough drenching
- The City of New Orleans ordered its citizens to take shelter from 8 pm Friday after stocking up on key supplies
- Its governor said flooding can result from ‘storm surge, high rivers and rain’ and ‘we’re going to have all three’
- It also issued voluntary evacuation orders for those outside the levee system in anticipation of a deadly surge
- Barry is threatening a storm surge up to 3ft at the mouth of the Mississippi which is already unusually swollen
- The low-lying New Orleans area could get up to 15 inches of rain through Sunday and is already partly flooded
- The rains will test the city’s updated flood defenses since it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005
- Dramatic drone footage shows the coastal town of Grand Isle submerged in water as the storm surge rolls in
New Orleans is bracing for a triple threat of storm surge, river and rain as Tropical Storm Barry gathers strength and is set to hit on Saturday morning as a Category 1 Hurricane, unleashing downpours that will test the city’s post-Katrina flood defenses.
New Orleans’ governor warned of an ‘extreme rain event’ and said it would be the first time a hurricane made landfall in Louisiana when the Mississippi River was already at flood stage.</p
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‘There are three ways that Louisiana can flood: storm surge, high rivers and rain,’ Governor John Bel Edwards said at a news conference on Friday. ‘We’re going to have all three.’
Although the slow-moving storm was expected to roll in as a weak hurricane in terms of wind speeds, it is prompting fears of deadly flooding in the whole region as forecasters said it could unload 10 to 20 inches of rain through Sunday across a swath of Louisiana that includes New Orleans and Baton Rouge, as well as southwestern Mississippi, with pockets in Louisiana getting 25 inches.
‘Nobody should take this storm lightly just because it’s supposed to be a Category 1 when it makes landfall,’ Edwards said. ‘The real danger in this storm was never about the wind anyway. It’s always been about the rain.’
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This map shows Tropical Storm Barry swirling in the Gulf of Mexico at around 1 pm on Friday. Pockets of Louisiana could get as much as 25 inches of rain, causing dangerous flash flooding and pooling
Grand Isle is one of the low-lying areas in coastal Louisiana already covered in water on Friday as Barry’s storm surge rolled in
Dramatic drone footage shows the town of Grand Isle, which lies on a narrow barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, submerged by the incoming storm surge.
The City of New Orleans ordered its citizens to take shelter as Louisiana braces for Tropical Storm Barry to bring rain and deadly flooding when it makes landfall as a Category 1 Hurricane on Saturday morning.
‘Shelter in place by 8pm, stay off the streets of New Orleans for your safety and the safety of our first responders,’ the city’s official Twitter account posted, also saying that residents ‘should be wrapping up preparedness activities’ on Friday afternoon.
Officials also issued voluntary evacuation orders for those outside the city’s levee system in anticipation of a deadly storm surge between three to six feet.
The National Hurricane Center advised: ‘Strengthening is forecast before landfall, and Barry is expected to be a hurricane when the center reaches the Louisiana coast on Saturday. Weakening is expected after Barry moves inland.’
Utility repair crews with bucket trucks moved into position in the region. Homeowners sandbagged their property or packed up and left. And tourists crowded New Orleans’ airport in hopes of catching an early flight and getting out of town ahead of the storm. ……more here
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