Tropical Storm Barry presents New Orleans with an unprecedented problem, according to the National Weather Service. The Mississippi River, which is usually at 6 to 8 feet in midsummer in the Big Easy, is now at 16 feet, owing to record flooding that's taken place this year all along the waterway.
In the meantime, Barry is spinning away in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening a storm surge of 2 to 3 feet at the mouth of the river, said Jeffrey Graschel, a hydrologist with the weather service's Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center in Slidell, Louisiana.
The unusual confluence of factors adds up to a forecast that has the river cresting Saturday at 19 feet, a level not seen since February 1950 and about 2.3 feet shy of the record set in April 1922, the weather service said Thursday.
"Look, there are three ways that Louisiana floods: storm surge, high rivers and rain," Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday. "We're going to have all three." States of emergency have been declared in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaquemines and St. Charles parishes. Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish have instituted mandatory evacuations as a precaution in low-lying areas or those outside major levees.
#CNN #News
… Get your “HELP!” signs ready!
@Vivian Perino plenty of money to spread around now that Planned Parenthood is defunded and the crimigrants are being deported.
Yea as usual. Again and again. Geez just move already. Easier said than done but this will keep happening.
No, they have spent it on giving the illegal immigrants healthcare, food and shelter while they imprisoned their own in squander.
Will be wet. From the standpoint of water.
Solution: Yell 3 times “climate change is a liberal hoax” at the storm and like magic it will disappear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dBqeSfS68
FREE CHINA!!!!
Y’all hurry up and call me when u get to South Carolina. I’ll keep the porch light on, gods speed my friends. Making pallets in the living room, y’all hurry.
I wanna know when we run out of names
Rayan animates we will just reuse names. Except for retired ones from horrible storms like Katrina and Gustov
@Rayne Lee and Harvey and if this one is bad, Barry.
New Orleans is not going to be able to pump their way out of this I’m afraid the mayor even said so
@None Yourbiddness Hurricane Bathhouse Barry will blow anything.
Barry will pump hard during the storms infancy, reminiscent of Obama with children on Epstein Island.
SHUT UP AND MAN THE BUCKETS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dBqeSfS68
It’s already flooding in New Orleans. If we haven’t gotten the worst of it yet then they are fucked.
Good time to have a raft over there.
Looks like this one could be “tremendously wet” folks..
Be wary of Pennywise the clown.
Why did you say that ?
@Quickstrike Viper
It’s a reference to the book and movie IT, by Stephen King. The story opens just after a hard rain storm.
@Movie Nerd We’ll see….
Im sure he is gonna drown. #PennyWiseDrowns
Voo Doo city I’ll be praying for y’all
Sounds scary. I hope everyone will be ok
except trump supporters right?
Prayers Up for my home state of Louisiana
Prayers for Louisiana. 🙏🏻
Thank You
Thanks sugar.
Thanks
Stake your claim in the Superdome now, before the warlords take all the best luxury boxes! BYOTP! ✊🏾👍🏾
Trump just signed an executive order to send paper towels to the area.
For trump that’s to much like thinking…………Idiot
@Zeno C too
@abundantYOUniverse lol
@None Yourbiddness its “stooopid”..you missed an “o”
Why Trump supporters always all over CNN videos. I’m starting to think most of them just want attention. 🛑
Can the next hurricane be named nature valley
lol
Barry’s headed strait up John Berman’s meat-pipe.
The visual 🤢🤮
@MLK’s Conservative Ghost LOL, yeah I hear ya man.
Holy snappin turtles!
Lol. !!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
Just notice that Bianna who was former of CBS This Morning is so Anchor on CNN… Wow
But, i hope for everyone to stay safe there
I don’t know if “epic” is a good word to use,makes it sound like it’s gonna be fun.
Now this would not happen if you had raked the leaves off the swamp in Louisiana!
Send it in the TRUMPERS to DRAIN THE SWAMP
Lol !!
The annual throwing of the paper towels event is about to commence, everybody grab your “I don’t really care, do u?” jacket.