Tropical Storm Barrie, on Sunday, crossed Louisiana, heading north, with the risk of major flooding, making New Orleans, which was at risk, breathing a sigh of relief.
In a sign that Louisiana's largest city, five meters below sea level, no longer fears heavy rains due to the storm Bari, its civil defense apparatus began Saturday removing mobile barriers erected around a part of the city to protect it.
"We're out of the storm, we're lucky, we were out of the storm," New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell said. "It seems that the clouds have passed around us."
The waters of the Mississippi River, the largest river in North America, which crosses the city, have also begun to decline, although it remains close to the flood level it has repeatedly hit since the beginning of 2019.
But to avoid overflowing at the end of the week, a section of his water was diverted toward Lake Puncharten, which seemed to the 61-year-old Michael Forbes to increase dramatically.
He said the water level rose to 1.5 meters on Saturday, something he had never seen before.
"Many warnings about a tropical storm have been canceled, and the risk of coastal flooding is on the rise, but there is a prospect of a sudden 10-meter continuous flooding," Cantrell said on Sunday morning.
Although the coast of Louisiana appears relatively out of danger, on Sunday morning, in some respects, despite waterlogging, weather experts warn of the continuing risk of "potentially fatal" flooding and flooding of streams in Louisiana and the neighboring state of Mississippi .
"The danger will continue over the next week," the experts said, stressing the fact that "the threat is essential" to the Bari storm.
In memory of Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which left more than 1,800 dead, more than 1,000 in New Orleans, 80 percent of which collapsed after the collapse of protection barriers.
New Orleans airport resumed operations on Sunday after all flights were canceled on Saturday night. The electricity service company Interji said that at 9 am on Sunday, there were 63500 people deprived of electricity, and recorded power outages in Mississippi.