Parts of the South, including much of Louisiana, are bracing for potential catastrophic levels of rain this weekend as Tropical Storm Barry draws near.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the storm could strengthen to hurricane levels by Friday night or Saturday morning. But experts cautioned on Friday that the real danger associated with Barry is from the rains the storm will bring: A torrential downpour is set to fall on an area already saturated with water.
“If they push it high enough, it’ll overtop the levees,” Darryl Malek-Wiley, an environmental justice organizer in New Orleans, told ThinkProgress in advance of the storm.
Barry is expected to make landfall on Saturday, bringing between 10 and 20 inches of rain to the region.
Read the story from ThinkProgress by E.A. Crunden - “Tropical Storm Barry is part of an alarming trend driven by climate change, experts say."
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