Major storm Barry slams into Louisiana, pelting the region with heavy rain and ferocious winds as millions of Americans brace for the serious flooding expected to follow
Logan Courvlle pushes his bike through a flooded street after Hurricane Barry in Mandeville, Louisiana, U.S. July 13, 2019.
A National Weather Service forecaster said the city may escape with only 2 to 4 inches of rain. But officials warned that Barry could still cause disastrous flooding across a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast and drop up to 50 cm through Sunday across other parts of Louisiana. The people included a 77-year-old man who called for help because he had about 4 feet of water in his home.But a levee in Terrebonne Parish was overtopped by water, officials said. And video showed water getting over a second levee in Plaquemines Parish, where fingers of land extend deep into the Gulf of Mexico. Terrebonne Parish ordered a new evacuation affecting an estimated 400 people.
In Lafayette, Willie Allen and his 11-year-old grandson, Gavin Coleman, shoveled sand into 20 green bags, joining a group of more than 20 other people doing the same thing during a break in the rain. Wearing a mud-streaked T-shirt and shorts, Allen loaded the bags onto the back of his pickup.Many businesses were also shut down or closed early in Baton Rouge, and winds were strong enough to rock large pickup trucks.
Elsewhere, more than 120,000 customers in Louisiana and another nearly 6,000 customers in Mississippi and Alabama were without power Saturday, according to poweroutage.us. For a few hours, the storm had maximum sustained winds of 120 kph , just above the 120 kph threshold to be a hurricane.Downpours also lashed coastal Alabama and Mississippi.
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