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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.
Neighbors in New Orleans are helping each other in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida that left a vast trail of devastation and left more than a million without power. (Sept. 3)
The strength of Hurricane Ida on August 29, 2021––exactly 16 years later––forced a considerable amount of water towards New Orleans and the system performed as designed. [51] The surge heights and direction of the surge was different than in Hurricane Katrina and it is noted that the mayor of New Orleans did not order a mandatory ...
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 ...
U.S. Army Infantry on patrol in New Orleans in an area previously underwater, September 2005. A Border Patrol Special Response Team searches a hotel room-by-room in New Orleans in response to Hurricane Katrina. Shortly after the hurricane moved away on August 30, 2005, some residents of New Orleans who remained in the city began looting stores.
Downed trees and powerlines blocked roads in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 30, after Hurricane Ida wreaked havoc across the city the day before.This footage, uploaded by Bruce Reilly, shows a ...
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.
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 ...