Governor Edwards says Tropical Storm Barry will be a major weather event for much of Louisiana. The storm is expected to make landfall Saturday morning as a Category One hurricane. But Edwards provided has some good news. He says the storm surge forecast at the mouth of Mississippi River has been lowered…
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Edwards says rainwater flooding is the biggest concern.
But Plaquemines Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness spokesperson Jade Duplessis says they’ll still be keeping a close eye on levee systems to the south of New Orleans…
The eventual hurricane is projected to make landfall near Morgan City.
Barry has been one of the slower moving storm systems in recent memory, evocting shades of the 2016 system that brought devastating floods to the Baton Rouge and Livingston Parish regions. State Climatologist Barry Keim says get ready to hunker down for a bit as tropical storm conditions will begin Friday night and take a noticeable turn for the worse Saturday morning along the coast, and that afternoon in the Baton Rouge area.
The United Cajun Navy has been activated in anticipation of Barry. Founder Todd Terrell says they’ve mobilized their volunteers to help make sandbags Baton Rouge, which is set to potentially see over a foot of rainwater.
Terrell says they’ll be staging their waterborne rescue missions for flood zones from L’Auberge Casino, on the river in south Baton Rouge.