Surge Gate System News Today

Minute, and the pounding rain is just intensifying here. down here, heres another danger. another reason why you shouldnt venture out in a hurricane after dark when the powers out, things like this. this is a construction site that they had to leave obviously and leave a lot of equipment and debris and 2 x 4s and things here. youre not going to be able to see stuff flying around. theres been debris flying around and thats going to be a concern if people try to venture out in this. no visibility....

Well. the flooding that youre going to see probably here in the french quarter and elsewhere in new orleans is going to be a rainfall volume type of flooding. it likely will not be because of storm surge because the levee system here has been really heavily fortified since hurricane katrina in 2005. ive been talking with people from the flood protection system authority here in new orleans all day today. they are very confident that the levees, surge gates, floodgates -- those gates are closed b...