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Flooding in Louisiana after Tropical Storm Bertha makes landfall 60%
7/23/2026, 12:42:39 AM
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All [snorts] right, now to tropical storm Bertha, which made landfall in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana this afternoon. Forecasters say the storm will move over New Orleans tonight and then continue towards Houston. So CBS News correspondent Lana Zach is live in New Orleans, Louisiana for us. So Lana, tell us Oh, hello there. Right in the middle of some water. What conditions it been like all day?
Well, uh, according to the National Hurricane Center, it made landfall just a couple miles from here in St. Bernard Parish, and as you can see, it brought with it that coastal flooding that we've been telling people was anticipated.
In this residential neighborhood, the water continues to come up. And actually, you can see that there's some people here who are having a little bit of fun uh with it. And we've actually seen a couple of different folks out in in boats just sort of enjoying their street at the moment.
at the moment. But there is still um a risk for millions of people uh because this storm is not done yet and there are still the possibilities of uh of high surge of um of surges and in the from the water and there's also the possibility of very significant rip currents.
currents. So many of these beaches remain off limits and people should really uh take those warnings seriously.
We understand that tropical storm Bertha is going to continue to very slowly make its way westward, but the worst of it has happened. Landfall has happened and now we're starting to see when this water goes away, how people are going to deal with that.
>> Yeah, absolutely. And that takes some time. So, what are you hearing from people who live there?
Well, I'm going to tell you about the woman who lives in the house right here.
And in fact, she just moved in less than a year ago. Here's a little bit of what she had to say. And I'm like, there's water in the street. Like, what's going on? If I feel like it gets really bad, I
I'm going to leave. I'm going to go ahead and pack it up because this is replaceable. My life isn't. I'm going to go. That's a whole lot of water back there, and I can't drink it all.
Now, she lived through Katrina. This house was, she said, her forever home.
Right now, they don't have any flooding inside the house, but she said to me that they had previously had flooding in this house. And that's why when she went to buy it and get insurance, flood insurance, it was extremely expensive. For her. So, every time one of these floods happens, it does have a financial impact not only on the people who live in these homes, but also lost revenue for the fishermen.
We were speaking to some today that weren't able to go out because of tropical storm Bertha. One told me that this is going to cost him thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
Julia.
>> Oh, wow. Lana, you do have some friends behind you. Some friends boating and a nice German Shepherd just waiting in the water there. [laughter]
>> All right.
>> You know, they're trying to teach the dog to carry their boat, but uh but he doesn't understand the assignment just yet.
>> Oh, no. [laughter]
A Lana, appreciate your reporting. Thank you so much.
All right. Meteorologist Zoy is now joining us.
Okay, so we've kind of seen where it first stopped and then where's Bertha headed now?
>> Well, she is just going to be skirting along the coast towards Texas over the next 24 to 36 hours and making widespread impacts as she does so.
Obviously, people who live on the Gulf Coast states, they're used to tropical systems. They're used to hurricanes that are much stronger than this. So, this is not even close to the strongest storm that they've seen, but it's the strongest storm that we have seen this year.
So, it's just kind of a reminder to be prepared. There is going to be more widespread impacts again making their way over Louisiana and over to Texas over the next 24 hours. So, we take a look at that tropical storm cone.
You can see how it says TS right there.
That means that it's going to stay a tropical storm strength up until it reaches Texas, which means it's going to have those 45 plus mileph wind gust,
which is what we're seeing right now.
We're really not expecting it to weaken all too much as it steps out towards land. So now again, it's making its way towards the southeastern coast of Louisiana. By Thursday morning, it'll be on the southwestern corner of Louisiana. By Thursday night, it'll be out towards Texas. So it's going to speed up as it makes its way towards land and kind of
fall apart as it does. So the more widespread tropical storm impacts definitely going to be again over towards the southern part of Louisiana, the southern part of Alabama, and over towards the southernmost parts of Texas where anywhere from 1 to 3 feet of storm surge is possible.
surge is possible. Strong winds upwards of 45 mph wind gust have already been reported and up to six inches of rain.
But you notice the six inches of rain not necessarily in that tropical storm warning.
warning. There is going to be the potential of isolated flooding basically all along the Gulf Coast states because this storm system, even though it's going to be packing the biggest punch along the Louisiana coast, it's still going to be dropping a lot of rain along the Texas coast over the next 24 hours
or so. So, even if you live along the Texas coast and you're not under a storm warning, please make sure you are aware
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