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Close Followed notifications. Stay in the know about Baton Rouge's biggest news headlines. There was a problem saving your notification. Manage followed notifications. He added the one area of worry is in lower Livingston, Ascension and St. Saturday : Barry has been upgraded to a hurricane. The Weather Service has projected 10 to 20 inches of rain for the region, including in Lafayette, Baton Rouge and New Orleans, with localized maximums that could reach 25 inches over the next few days. Sign Up Today. Francisville St. Sign up. An important benchmark for flood levels in Ascension and lower Livingston parishes, the Amite at Port Vincent is expected to crest at Flood stage for the river is 8 feet. An email has been sent with a link to confirm list signup. The state began opening shelters to house evacuees from coastal parishes as Gov. Please log in to use this feature Log In. The current estimates showing wide swaths of territory with 10 to 20 inches of rain or more isn't necessarily what will happen as the rainfall is spread more unevenly than the estimates depict. Future forecasts could vary, based on how much rain actually falls. Can't see video below? It raised the Amite River at Denham Springs to The river also hit 41 feet in and Barry is expected to have stronger winds than Allison and the storm and isn't expected to stall over Louisiana as those storms did, though Barry won't be moving so fast either, projected to take about a day to move through Louisiana. Geological Survey report, the peak Amite River flow at Denham Springs in August was somewhere between a year and a year-flood, or floods that have a 1 percent to 0. Mega-shelter to open in Alexandria, bus-loads of supplies coming to south Louisiana, governor says. Despite 'just getting over ' floods, Baton Rouge area officials prepared for Hurricane Barry.

Winnings by casinos in the Baton Rouge market were up As Tropical Storm Barry pushes toward landfall Saturday between Morgan City and Vermilion Bay as an expected Category 1 hurricane, local officials and tens of thousands of residents are eyeing what impact its rains will have on rivers that brought devastating flooding to the region three years ago.

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Click here. Edit Article Add New Article. Manage Lists. By comparison, the river hit a peak of Bob Jacobsen, the Amite River Basin Commission's contract hydrologist, said it's probably best to view the Weather Service's projections as guidance at this point until large amounts of rain start falling Saturday and Sunday and forecasters can see how much rain is actually falling and how quickly it is falling. View comments. Toggle navigation. Sign up today for our newsletter! The level is 12 feet above flood stage but more than 5 feet below the record level seen in Jay Grymes, chief meteorologist for WAFB-TV, speculated the rainfall might be closer to Tropical Storm Allison, a slow-moving, meandering summer storm that dropped heavy rain on the Baton Rouge area nearly two decades ago. Buy Now. Denham Springs Mayor Gerard Landry said in an interview Thursday that the city's residents are particularly watching the storm's speed, as the difference in rain dumping for several days is large compared with rainfall coming down over a period of hours. The Comite, at Joor Road, is expected to reach Flood stage is 20 feet. Hurricane Barry could trigger repeat of flood level at some locations. Don't have an account? Allison, which hit the Texas coast first but lingered inland before going back into the Gulf and making landfall again, hit Baton Rouge as a subtropical storm. James parishes because some storm surge is expected in Lake Maurepas, potentially holding up drainage from those parishes.