Heavy rainfall Sunday and overnight is causing flooding and high tides in coastal Louisiana. There was a small breach in the levee in a Myrtle Grove subdivision, according to Fox 8 television, and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries evacuated 23 people from a flooded trailer park in Tangipahoa Parish this morning.
The National Weather service has extended a coastal flood warning overnight.
NOAA meteorologist Frank Rivette says the worst of it is over, but tides are still high.
Rivette says the winds are still moderate. “But the wind speeds have certainly relaxed compared to yesterday,” says Rivette. “It’s still going to take some time for some of this water to diminish from these coastal areas.”
While it was a significant storm, he says, it doesn’t compare to a hurricane. The coastal flood warning ends at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
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