Film production is shutting down completely in New Orleans in advance of Tropical Storm Barry, which is expected to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday
in the coming days. The National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Barry strengthed a bit overnight, and flash-flood warnings are widespread.
“We’re about 14 hours out from it really hitting New Orleans,” Parker said today at noon local time. “It’s not even raining here right now, but everyone’s being abundantly cautious. We’ve been through this before.” So often, in fact, that the local has its own hurricane policy, which states that once the National Weather Service announces a hurricane watch – usually issued 48 hours in advance of the onset of tropical force winds – “Production will cease by the end of the working on which the watch is issued. Production should consider ending the workday at the end of the eight hour minimum workday. The day a watch is announced should be the last workday until the storm has passed.
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