{"id":712240,"date":"2026-06-18T21:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712240\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:20:17","slug":"new-orleans-kenner-hit-with-tropical-storm-damage-after-flooding-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/712240\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans, Kenner hit with tropical storm damage after flooding, heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS &#8211; While the worst of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrz.com\/news\/photos-downed-trees-flooded-roads-damaged-buildings-after-tropical-weather-sweeps-through-louisiana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tropical Storm Arthur missed the capital region,<\/a> it whipped through parts of Kenner and New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning, strong winds and heavy rain left a path of destruction in Jefferson and Orleans parishes<\/p>\n<p>Williams Boulevard, in Kenner, Louisiana, was submerged in water. This minivan broke down after the driver tried to get through it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just stopped automatically when it got into the water,\u201d Husan Raza said.<\/p>\n<p>After realizing it was not going to start up, they attempted to move it out of the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pushed it really hard to try to get it out of the way, But the water was so high, even two of us pushing it together wasn\u2019t making it,\u201d Raza. said.<\/p>\n<p>And over in New Orleans, on Navare Street, Viviana Cerruti and her family woke up because of the noise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just heard crazy sounds outside, everything was going crazy. The tornado was probably passing during that time,\u201d Cerutti said.<\/p>\n<p>When it was all said and done, she walked outside to find damage to her new car that she just bought a month ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy window was broken, my door was dented, and outside everything was a mess. Our neighbors were all outside,\u201d Cerutti. said.<\/p>\n<p>Several tree branches are broken, there&#8217;s damage to the outfield in the park across the street, and a light pole in the middle of the street was dangling on the power lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not anything I haven\u2019t experienced before. In New Orleans, we usually have crazy weather. It was just weird how fast it came through. We don\u2019t have tornadoes a lot and it came through really fast,\u201d Cerutti said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS &#8211; While the worst of Tropical Storm Arthur missed the capital region, it whipped through parts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[24402,39113,192,1023,307106,307103,307102,307107,307100,307104,79,96653,307101,307108,307105],"class_list":["post-712240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-damage","tag-destruction","tag-environment","tag-flooding","tag-husanraza","tag-jeffersonparish","tag-kenner","tag-navarestreet","tag-neworleans","tag-orleansparish","tag-science","tag-tornado","tag-tropicalstormarthur","tag-vivianacerruti","tag-williamsboulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}