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July 18, 2025. Severe rain overnight in Louisiana caused some flooding to the west of New Orleans. More for Yo
Gov. Jeff Landry honors Louisiana college student Emma Foltz for evacuating 14 summer campers during the deadly July 4 flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas. July 17, 2025 at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
The Flood Watch that hovered over much of our area since Wednesday has expired, but know the western portion of Louisiana continues to see it until Saturday evening.
For one, the flood-ravaged region around Ruidoso, New Mexico, again finds itself at risk for slow-moving storms causing rapid water rise.
The heaviest rains are expected to instead take aim at the Acadiana area, but flash flooding will be an issue there and in New Orleans and Baton Rouge metros. Here's more.
Today, 17 million are under flood alerts across the Gulf Coast and in the Mid-Atlantic, and 19 million are under heat alerts across the Mid-Atlantic, southern Florida and Mississippi Valley.
One month before the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Black residents across southern Louisiana braced for their first tropical disturbance of hurricane season. The storm threatened to bring flash flooding across the coast from Mississippi to the center of Louisiana.