Hundreds were evacuated after a temporary dam failed in southern Louisiana due to heavy rains
Photo: Dan Anderson / Courtesy
Sunday, November 17
New torrential rains in Texas and Louisiana cause evacuations
A low pressure system that could turn into a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico has already brought heavy rains to Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana, where they have already died five people in recent days due to inclement weather, reported the National Weather Service (NWS).
# WPC_MD 0221 affecting southeastern Texas and southern Louisiana, # lawx # txwx , https://t.co/tWq3UNweuf pic.twitter.com/29 mVLPwN2A
– NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) May 21, 2021
The Governor of Louisiana , John Bel Edwards, said that of five people died in the storm, four drowned when they tried to cross overflowing waters with their cars.
The system would be renamed “Ana” or “Bill ”Depending on what happens to another storm system that continues to form in the Atlantic near Bermuda and, according to meteorologists, has a high probability of becoming a storm in the next 48 hours.
This s weather systems occur one week before on 1 June formally begins the hurricane season in the North Atlantic.
NWS indicated that heavy rains in Texas and Louisiana could cause extensive floods , and in recent days warnings of possible floods throughout the South Central US from Arkansas to Mississippi and Oklahoma.
The New Orleans metropolitan area and the rest of Southeast Louisiana have been under alerts of flood s since Wednesday.
Parts of
Texas and Louisiana have received more than 10 inches of rain since last Saturday, based on NOAA Weather Forecast Center . A reporting station on the south side of Lake Charles, Louisiana, collected more than 21 inches of rain.
Friday, the threat of more heavy and possible rains flooding will be greatest from eastern Texas to southern Louisiana .
Several river meters in the southeast of Texas and Louisiana have already risen above the level of major floods due to heavy rains This week, reported weather.com .
Evacuations due to failure of a levee in Louisiana
Hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate from u A rural community in southern Louisiana after a barrier against floods known as AquaDam will fail and water will begin to spill onto a road.
Iberville Parish # lawx https://t.co/ 42 EZ 1268 CI
– Ashley Ruiz (@AshleyRuizWx) May 20, 2021
Evacuations were ordered at approximately 10 am CDT on Friday to from 300 to 350 homes in an area known as Bayou Pigeon , about 34 miles southwest of Baton Rouge in Iberville Parish.
“The water is coming and if we do not stop it very quickly it will flood many houses that historically were not flooded”, Sheriff Brett Stassi told weather.com on a phone call on Friday afternoon.
Iberville Parish aqua dam failure 📷: @ RaychelleRiley # lawx | @ NWSNewOrleans pic.twitter.com/eR9DgP8eQW
– Ashley Ruiz (@AshleyRuizWx) May 29, 2021
AquaDams are tubes filled with water that are used as barriers against floods . They come in segments that usually have 54 feet or 100 feet long and are made of two air chambers that fill with water at the site, according to The Advocate. The newspaper reports that the use of AquaDams has been controversial in the Baton Rouge area.
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