Hurricane Barry continues it’s slow creep into Louisiana, having touched land in Morgan City, and it’s expected to continue moving northwest into Vermillion Parish, before hugging the western edge of Lafayette.
State Climatologist Barry Keim says the system is unusually slow moving, and looks set to stick around in the state through the weekend.
During that time parts of south-central Louisiana from the western edge of Baton Rouge to Lafayette will receive 10 to 15 inches of rain, with isolated areas looking at potential for even more rain.
There’s some pretty gripping video on twitter at the moment of a levee in Myrtle Grove in Plaquemines Parish being overtopped, but officials say it is not a breach, and they anticipated overtopping’s in some areas as the river’s already at a high water.
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St. Tammany Parish President Pat Brister says some of the river systems that flooded in a 2016 march flood event are expected to flood again as heavy rainfall combines with already high river levels. She says compared to 2016…
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Highway 51 from I-10 to Ruddock has been closed due to high water.
Entergy is reporting power outages to 66,830 residents in Louisiana as of this morning to due the strong and steady winds of Hurricane Barry, but Spokesperson Lee Sabatini says repairs can’t begin until the winds fall below 30 miles per hour.
The governor will be addressing the state with an update on the situation at 1PM.