Auto repair shops are bracing for an onslaught of water logged car repairs today as they open for business after yesterday's street flooding.
The Mother's Day Deluge has many people cleaning up from flood waters that got into some homes and businesses too.
"We had four to five inches of rain," WWL TV Meteorologist Dave Nussbaum said of what fell Sunday morning. "Three to three and a half fell in one hour."
That was too much to be contained to canals, so the streets filled too as pumps struggled to keep up.
#NOFD firemen help remove luggage from a flooded car on Basin street after severe weather @theadvocateno pic.twitter.com/7dyUTLEnDv
— Sophia Germer (@SophiaGermer) May 12, 2019The New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board said 115 of the city's 120 pumps were working.
"Widespread street flooding was reported throughout the city, most of which cleared within two hours," the Cantrell administration said in a news release. "While today’s event showed some improvements in the drainage system, observed flooding in some areas took notably longer to drain."
The mayor says more needs to be done.
“My administration has been laser-focused on infrastructure as a whole and stormwater management in particular,” said Mayor LaToya Cantrell. “As we face our issues head on, we are using data and experience to better live with water.”
Some 18,000 power outages were reported Sunday morning.
