Photo courtesy of St. Tammany Parish Sheriffs
Parts of Mandeville experienced ten inches of rain and parts of Covington and Madisonville were hit with a few inches after storms swept through the area late Monday night and Tuesday morning.
St. Tammany Parish Public Information Director Michael Vinsanau said that resulted in, as of now, an undetermined number of flooded homes and streets in areas of the city south of I-12 and along US 190. He said this deluge came at a bad time.
“In Southeast Louisiana, it is very saturated right now, we’ve had a lot of rain over the past few weeks and really this year,” said Vinsanau.
Slidell National Weather Service Meteorologist Chris Bannan said a land breeze blew through the area bringing with it multipole rounds of thunderstorms that dumped a lot of rain starting around 11:30 Monday night through about 9 AM Tuesday morning.
While the worst of Tuesday morning’s floods hit the Mandeville area Bannan warns this rain event may not be done until tomorrow.
“In the adjacent Louisiana parishes where they also got some heavy rain yesterday it could quickly lead to some flash flooding, but we also need to keep our eyes on some rivers and make sure the rivers don’t respond too fast,” said Bannan.
Vinsanau said the parish government is monitoring the river situation north of Mandeville but at this time does not have major concerns about regional river swelling similar to what has been seen in past events.
While the floodwaters recede Vinsanau asked residents to stay home if they can and don’t drive through flooded streets.
“We have had some reports this morning of homes that had not flooded but they had people driving down the street and it pushed some water into their homes, that is what we are really trying to prevent,” said Vinsanau.
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