Some residents and visitors prepared to flee New Orleans on Thursday as Tropical...
NEW ORLEANS - Some residents and visitors prepared to flee New Orleans on Thursday as Tropical Storm Barry closed in and city officials warned of severe flooding if it makes landfall by early Saturday as the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2019 season.
The lower Mississippi is forecast to peak at 19 feet on Saturday, the highest it has been since 1950 when it almost reached 20 feet, according to the National Weather Service. “We cannot pump our way out of the water levels that are expected to hit the city of New Orleans,” Cantrell said. “We need you to understand this.”Oil companies have shut a third of offshore Gulf of Mexico production ahead and a coastal refinery was set to shutdown due to an evacuation order prompted by the storm, pushing oil and gasoline prices higher.Cantrell said no official evacuation orders were being issued but urged people to gather supplies, secure their property and shelter in place.
In the city’s Bywater neighborhood a block from the Mississippi River, Betsey and Jack Hazard were preparing to repair a fence around their house and flee with their two small children to Mississippi. Kate Clayson of Northhampton, England, and her boyfriend Maxx Lipman of Nashville, Tennessee, said they had arrived on Wednesday for a vacation but were planning to depart on Thursday.
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