Power outage, flooding hit Morgan City

Published: Sep 11, 2024 Duration: 00:02:31 Category: News & Politics
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afternoon sun. Highs in the mid 80s. It looks like a nice day here, but take a look at this video just into our newsroom. Shows New Orleans crews closing floodgates around the city to block out Francine's storm surge. Since Monday, the Flood Protection Authority says crews closed 52 floodgates. The barriers can provide surge protection as high as 26ft above sea level, depending on the area. Meantime, hundreds of thousands are waking up without power this morning after damaging wind gusts and heavy rain from Hurricane Francine just before landfall, the storm strengthened into a powerful category two. Our Shelby Rose is live this morning for us in Morgan City, about an hour west of where that storm made landfall. Shelby, we see people behind you. Looks like people are just trying to survey the damage. Yes. Now that the sun is coming up and the curfew has been lifted here in Morgan City, that everyone is kind of coming out of their houses and looking around, just trying to see what Hurricane Francine left behind. Thankfully, from what we've noticed, at least in this neighborhood, in the immediate area for where we are, we don't see a ton of structural damage. But the problem is, especially in this area, because we're right next to a major river, has been the flooding. We're told by some of these residents that the water was coming up, at least to their waist, maybe even higher, flooding out their cars and some of the homes in this area. I mean, you can see that a lot of these trees and power poles are also down, and no one in this town has power. Absolutely no one. When we were driving in this morning at about 4:00, it was eerie how unbelievably pitch dark this entire area was. I mean, Morgan City was one of the most ravaged areas because of Hurricane Francine. A lot of people were asked to voluntarily, voluntarily evacuate. But I mean, as you can clearly tell, a lot of people decided to stay. We're told that, you know, they're used to this. I mean, this is a coastal town that is no stranger to hurricanes, but still scary nonetheless. One man that we spoke to last hour told us that he went outside. At one point. There was only a few inches of water. Ten minutes later it was like four feet. So it was what the scary part was, was just how fast the waters rose here. And so right now, as you guys said, it's just damage assessment. The good news, though, is that as far as we know, there have been no reports of any deaths related to Hurricane Francine in any parts of Louisiana. So that is definitely the good news here. But we're going to be driving around to try to see what other damage we can f

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