New Orleans residents fill sandbags as Francine swirls in Gulf

Описание: (10 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Orleans - 10 September 2024
1. Wide of truck dumping sand
2. Various of residents and volunteers filling sandbags
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayame Dinkler, Volunteer:
"It's all about community. And everybody here has been so nice, so grateful. This is like why I love New Orleans because it's just about people helping each other out."
4. Various of Dinkler carrying, tying sandbags
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayame Dinkler, Volunteer:
"I think the fact that we've been spared most of the hurricane season from any major storm and it's like now people are ready to go and getting into planning mode and help each other out. So I don't really sense weariness, you know, I think there's a lot of energy to prepare and help each other."
6. Various of sand bags being loaded up
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Darlene Scales, New Orleans Resident:
"It actually stops it, you know from going in the house, the lower area. So that's why I normally gets it."
8. Wide of Scales carrying sandbag to car
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Darlene Scales, New Orleans Resident:
"I can say you never know because it's Mother Nature, so you never know."
10. Wide of raindrops in puddle while residents bag sand
11. Wide of people filling sand bags
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Lance Ellis, Volunteer:
"We're going to get through this because I'm staying. I'm not leaving this year. I'm not leaving. Because I don't think it's going to be that great of the deal. Just got to hunker down, take care of your necessities. We're going to be good. It all works together for God's good."
13. Wide of car pulling up for sand bags

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Harvey, Louisiana - 10 September 2024
14. Various of flood gate being closed
STORYLINE:
Tropical Storm Francine is churning in extremely warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico with increasing strength.

It is expected to reach hurricane status Tuesday before making landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 96 to 110 mph.

New Orleans area residents and volunteers lined up at the Dryades YMCA filling sand bags to prevent flooding at their homes.

As storm preparations continue all over the state, workers from the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West closed floodgates along the Harvey Canal, just outside the New Orleans city limits, in anticipation of the storm.

AP Video shot by Stephen Smith and Gerald Herbert

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