We start with Francine which is now moving across Mississippi and Alabama as a dangerous tropical depression. The storm made landfall yesterday at five o’clock local time and is terrible as a category one in Parish Louisiana. The storm brought winds of one hundred miles per hour, ripping off roofs and roofs of homes or businesses our homes and businesses. It also knocked down trees and utility poles, for example is still moving. Which is creating a major flood threat across the Southeast, now the heaviest rainfall is approaching ten inches northwest of New Orleans. About three hundred thousand people are still without power across the state, we have team coverage. Which is keeping an eye on everyone for this morning, let’s go to a B. He’s got rivers and Huma Louisiana.
Friends hit hard in southern Louisiana, with flash flooding in New Orleans. Cars drowned, and drivers were driving through flooded streets.
With flashlights boots and lashes in hand, a state of emergency was declared in the city last night. Flood waters are still a problem. Francine’s strong winds knocked out power to more than a million homes and businesses, trees fell on power lines. Power lines caught fire, you can see power lines being damaged. Cars are spinning in the streets. Need a directive after the category of hurricane. Louisiana has activated more than two thousand National Guard troops. Some areas are bracing for ten-foot storm surges, the video shows debris strewn across this parking lot.
We were on the coast, the military thing was coming ashore as my friend Francine made landfall. I was in the most intense part of this storm as we spoke or write. The one hundred miles off the road, the threat of power outages is increasing every minute. Sign me before I send insulation, despite being ordered to this Auto Zone. Jefferson Parish officials warned that the sewage system is being overwhelmed by floodwaters. Homes can go back, even if you’ve gone through the story, every time you make a phone call, it’s going to go away. And they have about four hundred thousand customers without power right now across the state of Louisiana, so even though this storm has moved north through this area, the effects of this storm could be felt for days to come. If not weeks, it’s going in the opposite direction in a couple of days. The chief meteorologist in Jersey joins us with the latest information on the storm’s path.
So right now we have flood warnings all over Mississippi. We have tornado warnings in the Florida Panhandle, it’s pretty far-reaching. Even though it’s dropped down into a depression, it doesn’t matter where it is, there are a lot of wind problems. Flash flooding is happening, so let’s talk about it, it’s just north of New Orleans. It’s actually near Jackson Mississippi, it’s going to continue, continue to move northeast throughout the day. It’s going to slow down and that will cause some problems. The tornado threat will probably extend into Alabama and there’s a flood warning, but there’s also a wind warning. That has reached into Tennessee in Arkansas customers wind gusts. See as we go by time, wind speeds could be over sixty miles per hour here. Look at Tupelo at three in the afternoon, fifty-eight fifty-five to Memphis, and then as we go further.
Wind speeds over forty in Paducah tonight as well. So this is the type that can still knock down trees and challenge power lines. Even though we see it slowing down, it’s going to slow down so it’s going to be a lot of rain, we’re talking four to six inches with some bigger bands and locally up to ten inches of rain. Significant flash flood addresses in Birmingham could easily flood. We want to keep an eye on that as well as a lot of areas in this area, but in the dry so they need it. But they don’t need it and five hours and then a lot more, so Francine is depressed, but we have a lot of other areas, of interest and by early next week we could be talking about another named storm off the coast. Could affect more of North Carolina or Virginia, which would put it on that witch.
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