In a news conference, Mayor LaToya Cantrell declared that “we absolutely made it through the storm.”“Beyond lucky, we were spared,” she said. “It just seemed to go around us.”But some in the city were still cleaning up from the flooding on Wednesday. Mr. Knighten is convinced that the city will never be able to improve its troubled drainage system enough to keep homes and businesses like his consistently dry. “You as a citizen have to make the decision to stick it out because you love the music and second lines and the food,” Mr. Knighten said. Now Mr. Robin, 67, had another worry: that the storm surge had pushed juvenile white shrimp into the tall grass along the coast, where he thought they might be killed by pollutants.

Source: New York Times July 14, 2019 23:56 UTC