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Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on Hurricane Francine for Wednesday, Sept. 11. For the latest, view our story for Thursday, Sept. 12. Francine made landfall along the Louisiana coast ...
New Orleans also suffers sporadic power outages, but escapes with only minor flooding. June 23–24, 2012 – Initially forecast to brush the state as a hurricane, [25] Tropical Storm Debby prompted a state of emergency. [26] The storm ultimately tracked far right of early predictions and struck Florida.
As of 11 p.m. ET Wednesday, Francine's center was about 35 miles northwest of New Orleans, the hurricane center said. It was moving northeast at 16 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.
New Orleans should brace for major flooding rain, winds of up to 73 mph, the possibility of tornadoes and 3 to 5 feet of storm surge, the local weather service office said Tuesday. The city ...
Scott Withers/Scripps News. RELATED STORY | New tools help better predict storms and alert the public for hurricane season On Monday, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry issued a state of emergency ...
Flooding in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Betsy in 1965. New Orleans was settled on a natural high ground along the Mississippi River. Later developments that eventually extended to nearby Lake Pontchartrain were built on fill to bring them above the average lake level. Navigable commercial waterways extended from the lake ...
Any major storm near Louisiana evokes memories of Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated New Orleans and surrounding areas, killing nearly 1,400 people and causing $125 billion in ...
Hurricane preparedness in New Orleans has been an issue since the city's early settlement because of its location. New Orleans was built on a marsh . Unlike the first two centuries of its existence, today a little under half of the modern city sits below sea level .