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Follow the latest on Tropical Depression Nicholas.
Tropical Depression Nicholas could produce dangerous flash flooding in parts of the Deep South, unleashing heavy rain in Louisiana, Southern Mississippi and southern Alabama before moving toward the northeast, the National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday.
Forecasters warned that the storm, which was downgraded after it came ashore as a hurricane early Tuesday, could bring “life-threatening flash floods” across the Deep South, with up to 20 inches of rain possible in isolated spots across southern Louisiana, the center said.
Nicholas is forecast to churn eastward and arrive over Louisiana by Wednesday, the hurricane center said.
Though it will weaken as it moves over land in the coming days, the storm is still expected to generate tropical storm strength wind gusts and driving rains, according to the center.
The outlook through Friday includes rainfall of five to 10 inches in southern Louisiana, Southern Mississippi, southern Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle.
River flooding across parts of southern Louisiana and Mississippi was also possible, they said.
As Nicholas brings strong winds and heavy rains to parts of Texas and Louisiana, it will affect areas still recovering from last month’s Hurricane Ida, the center said.
Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana said at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon that “one of the most distressing parts” of this latest storm was that heavy rain was expected to fall in the areas that “were most devastated by Hurricane Ida” in southeast Louisiana.
About 95,000 customers remain without power in the state because of Ida, Mr. Edwards said, and Nicholas has already added an additional 13,500 outages, many of which in homes that had recently managed to restore power after Ida’s landfall.
In southwest Louisiana, many homes are still covered in blue tarps after Hurricane Laura wreaked havoc there in 2020. Overall, more than 52,000 state residents have requested free installation of durable tarps through Blue Roof, a program funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The installations are performed or overseen by the Army Corps of Engineers. The program is just ramping up, but Col. Zachary L. Miller of the corps’s Ida recovery mission said he had hoped to attach all temporary roofs within 60 days.
Now, he said, Nicholas may delay workers’ efforts. “We understand the sense of urgency homeowners feel,” he said. “And we also understand more rain can mean more damage.”
The storm has already battered parts of coastal Texas, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers, after it made landfall early Tuesday as a Category 1 hurricane and moved toward Houston.
Eduardo Medina contributed reporting.
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