Flooding Swamps New Orleans; Possible Hurricane Coming Next

New Orleans—A storm swamped New Orleans streets and paralyzed traffic on July 10 as concerns grew that even worse weather was on the way: a possible hurricane that could strike the Gulf Coast and raise the Mississippi River to the brim of the city’s protective levees.

Terrian Jones reacts as she feels something moving in the water at her feet as she carries Drew and Chance Furlough to their mother on Belfast Street in New Orleans during flooding from a storm in the Gulf Mexico that dumped lots of rain on July 10, 2019. Matthew Hinton/AP Photo

​​​​​​​NEW ORLEANS—A storm swamped New Orleans streets and paralyzed traffic on July 10 as concerns grew that even worse weather was on the way: a possible hurricane that could strike the Gulf Coast and raise the Mississippi River to the brim of the city’s protective levees.