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Grand Isle inundated after the passage of Hurricane Isaac in August 2012. July 25–26, 2010 – The remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie produced a localized heavy rain event on July 25, with 8 to 9 in (200 to 230 mm) of rain falling in West Baton Rouge Parish. More than 100 homes were flooded and 20 bridges and roads were washed away.
[61] [62] [63] For business continuity and community rebuilding, private mobile flood recovery centers have also been made available, including a 10-piece modular building complex used in Baton Rouge by FEMA as a portable school for children of displaced families who moved north from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. [64] [65]
Meteorological history; Formed: August 14, 1969 ... Hurricane Camille was a powerful, ... to a point north of Baton Rouge. [22] Mississippi.
Hurricane Ida was a deadly and extremely destructive tropical cyclone in 2021 that became the second-most damaging and intense hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana on record, behind Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Hurricane Laura caused the largest power outage in Baton Rouge since Isaac in 2012. [157] In Shreveport a tree fell on a house, injuring a person inside, while another tree fell on a vehicle. [158] [159] In Monroe, metal roofing was blown off of multiple buildings. [160]
0–9. Tropical Depression Five (2010) 1812 Louisiana hurricane; 1831 Barbados–Louisiana hurricane; Racer's hurricane; 1856 Last Island hurricane; 1893 Cheniere Caminada hurricane
The Baton Rouge weather bureau operated under auxiliary power, without telephone communication. [89] Around 1 am, the worst of the wind and rain was over. Betsy also drove a storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain, just north of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a deep-water shipping channel to the east and south.
The hurricane made landfall with the same intensity between the mouth of the Sabine River and Cameron, Louisiana, later that day, causing unprecedented destruction across the region. Once inland, Audrey weakened and turned extratropical over West Virginia on June 29. Audrey was the first major hurricane to form in the Gulf of Mexico since 1945.