New Orleans officials planned to reopen government buildings and public schools Wednesday, a day after they were shut down amid fears of flooding rain from Harvey. On Tuesday, rains flooded a few of the city’s streets, but not to the same extent. Some New Orleans neighborhoods flooded earlier this month during a deluge that exposed problems with the city’s pump and drainage system. Landrieu urged residents to stay home Tuesday because of the threat of potential high water. “There’s plenty of puddling and stuff already,” he said, “so I just assume that we’re probably going to get a taste of what we had a couple weeks ago.” She just recovered from that.”īradley Morris lives in a ground-level house in New Orleans and was “preparing for the worst.” We just had a flood about two, three weeks ago.
“We’ve got to save our house,” New Orleans resident Israel Freeman said as he loaded sandbags for his mother’s home into his Cadillac. Mayor Mitch Landrieu opened his Tuesday news conference with a moment of silence for Katrina victims and words of support for Harvey’s victims in Texas and southwest Louisiana. Harvey’s devastating flooding brought back tough memories in New Orleans as Tuesday marked the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. He said he expects Texas officials to decide within 48 hours whether to accept the offer. “You never know what Mother Nature is going to throw at us, but with the people in this room, I’m confident we can handle it,” he told local and state officials during a visit Tuesday to Lake Charles, which is near the Texas border.Įdwards said Louisiana also has offered to shelter storm victims from Texas. John Bel Edwards urged people to remain alert but said the state is responding well to less severe conditions in its own borders. State offices in 28 parishes and most Baton Rouge area schools won’t open Wednesday in anticipation of possible severe weather. Cameron Parish’s Office of Emergency Preparedness said a curfew was in effect until the threat had passed and checkpoints have been set up at entry points into evacuated areas.
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