Rain, flooding follow Storm Barry as it spins north from New Orleans
Crews work to set up water pumps during Hurricane Barry in Plaquemines Parish/ NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Storm Barry trudged through northwestern Louisiana on Sunday, weakening to a tropical depression but dropping up to 15 inches (38 cm) of rain in some places to create life-threatening flood conditions along the Mississippi River. Barry, which made landfall on Saturday as a Category 1 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of intensity and then quickly weakened to a tropical storm, was 20 miles (35 km) north-northeast of Shreveport ...
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