May 8th 1995 Louisiana Flood
The May 8th-10th 1995 New Orleans area flood event, also known as the May 1995 Louisiana flood, struck the New Orleans metropolitan area, shutting down the city for two days. The entire 40 hour event from the evening of Monday, May 8, through the morning of Wednesday, May 10, consisted of two distinct heavy rainfall events. By Wednesday morning, storm total rainfall amounts of 10 to 20 inches (25 to 51 cm) were common across portions of southeast Louisiana and south Mississippi, 6 persons were killed. The event was later estimated to have caused more than $3.1 billion in damage.
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