We had plenty of rain last Friday and Saturday and the ground is still saturated from then and now this is what it looks like for the next two days...lots of rain today and...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON...
THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR
* PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...
ASCENSION...ASSUMPTION...EAST BATON ROUGE...EAST FELICIANA...
IBERVILLE...LIVINGSTON...LOWER JEFFERSON...LOWER LAFOURCHE...
LOWER PLAQUEMINES...LOWER ST. BERNARD...LOWER TERREBONNE...
ORLEANS...POINTE COUPEE...ST. CHARLES...ST. HELENA...ST.
JAMES...ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST...ST. TAMMANY...TANGIPAHOA...
UPPER JEFFERSON...UPPER LAFOURCHE...UPPER PLAQUEMINES...UPPER
ST. BERNARD...UPPER TERREBONNE...WASHINGTON...WEST BATON
ROUGE AND WEST FELICIANA. IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...AMITE...
HANCOCK...HARRISON...JACKSON...PEARL RIVER...PIKE...WALTHALL
AND WILKINSON.
* THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
* SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD RAIN AMOUNTS
OF 3 TO 5 INCHES ACROSS THE AREA...WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF UP TO
7 INCHES POSSIBLE BY THE END OF THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY. THE
GROUND IS ALREADY NEARLY SATURATED IN SOME AREAS AS A RESULT OF
RAINFALL THIS PAST FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLOODING IN A SHORT TIME
IN SOME AREAS.
* IN ADDITION TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING...RIVER FLOODING WILL
ALSO BE A CONCERN DUE TO ALREADY ELEVATED RIVER LEVELS. HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF INTO AREA RIVERS...WHICH WILL LEAD
TO A MORE EXTENDED PERIOD OF FLOODING INTO THE END OF THE
WORKWEEK. RIVERS IN THE BATON ROUGE AREA AND ACROSS THE
NORTHSHORE OF LAKE PONCHARTRAIN WILL BE MOST IMPACTED BY THIS
HEAVY RAINFALL.
Will be an interesting two days and the days to follow..... >:\ >:\ >:\