"We're watching the weather very closely, as everybody is," said SWBNO General Superintendent Steve Nelson. "Forecasters are predicting a fairly wide range of rainfall totals—anywhere from three to ...

Throughout the metro area, residents are taking advantage of free sandbags, including those in Central City who visited the Dryades YMCA as storm conditions intensified.

Lafayette Consolidated Government and the Lafayette Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness said they are encouraging residents to remain weather-aware and take proactive ...

I think we need to pay attention to it very closely. I don’t think it’s going to be a huge issue for New Orleans,” Collin Arnold, the city’s director of emergency preparedness and homeland security, ...

As of now, 86 of 93 drainage pumps are operational and ready. SWBNO said the system can handle about one inch of rain in the first hour and a half inch per hour after that. They said intense rainfall ...

From sandbag locations to drain cleaning, local parishes are prepping for a possible storm coming from the Gulf.