After briefly becoming the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, Barry was downgraded to a tropical storm after making landfall – but it nevertheless packed a serious punch as it moved inland.
“We are not in any way out of the woods,” she said, adding that flash flooding could still occur into Sunday. The storm was expected to chug north across inland Louisiana into Sunday, while tornado warnings were issued for areas of New Orleans and parts of the neighboring state of Mississippi. News footage showed localized flooding, swollen waterways, and downed power lines and trees across south Louisiana as rivers overtopped their levees in several locations, including part of coastal Terrebonne Parish where authorities had issued a mandatory evacuation notice.
Others hunkered down to ride out the squall, despite mandatory evacuation orders and the risk of dangerous storm surges. However, Edwards said new forecasts show many rivers wouldn’t reach their maximum height predicted before the storm hit, though flash floods remained a threat.
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Barry upgraded to hurricane, residents scramble for final preps - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.Hurricane Barry was churning off Louisiana on Saturday (July 13), poised to make landfall as the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019 in a westward shift that appeared to spare low-lying New Orleans from the massive flooding feared earlier this week. The National Hurricane Center, which said Barry had became a hurricane with maximum sustained winds …
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