WATCH: marianaatencio reports from outside New Orleans for NBCNewsNow as the region prepares for Tropical Storm Barry’s landfall.
New Orleans issued a shelter-in-place order to go into effect at 8 p.m. local time as residents rushed to prepare themselves for the worst. Floodgates were closed throughout the city in anticipation of life-threatening flooding along the central Gulf Coast and into the Lower Mississippi Valley due to the storm's slow movement.
"This is going to be a major rain event across a huge portion of Louisiana," Edwards, who authorized the activation of up to 3,000 National Guard personnel, told reporters."Look, there are three ways Louisiana floods — storm surge, high rivers and rain. We're going to have all three." New Orleans has 24 pump stations, which contain 99 stormwater management pumps and 21 dry-weather pumps and is comprised of more than 68,000 catch basins, 1,400 miles of lateral, underground drainage pipes, 280 miles of open and underground canals,Richard Rainey, of the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, told WDSU that the pumps could become overwhelmed if massive amounts of rain hit the area in a short period of time. On Wednesday, 8 inches of rain fell over a three-hour span.
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