Flooding - New Orleans

St. Charles Ave. flooding during protracted steady rains on 10/22/07

The New Orleans Office of Emergency Preparedness reports the following streets and intersections are flooded:

The onramps to the Crescent City Connection bridge at Earhart and Loyola avenues; the 9500 block of Lake Forest Avenue; Maple Street and Carrollton Avenue; Dixon Street and Gen. Ogden Street; Dixon and Airline Highway; Calhoun Street and Claiborne Avenue; City Park Avenue and Interstate 10; I-10 at the Mound Avenue railroad overpass; Nelson Street near Carrollton; Fontainebleau Street near Carrollton; and the 8700 and 8800 blocks of Airline Highway.

There also are reports that floodwaters are entering homes and businesses on Prytania Street between Louisiana and Napoleon avenues near Touro Hospital.

New Orleans police also are reporting heavy flooding at the intersection of Tulane Avenue and Carrollton, and on the West Bank, that Gen. de Gaulle Avenue is flooded from Holiday Drive to the Mississippi River Bridge.

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[Quakmaor]

"name ONE place in the world that is not prone to some kind of natural calamity" Denmark. Pretty much most of Scandinavia. Believe it or not.

[mystickrewe]

Please. This is minor street flooding. We're used to it, just like those up north are used to heavy snow. To you anti-New Orleans people- name ONE place in the world that is not prone to some kind of natural calamity. Have you ever heard of earthquakes, massive forest fires, and tornadoes? Idiots!

[zekeandcharlie]

I left a year before Katrina. Talk about a good decision.

[Jimbacsi]

Remind me not to move to New Orleans.