Blake and employees from several nearby restaurants came out to see the submerged car.
NEW ORLEANS — Drainage crews from the Sewerage and Water Commission are out in the city today preparing for upcoming rain.
They are lowering water levels in drainage ditches and have additional essential employees scheduled to work through the storm through Friday night.
The Sewerage and Water Commission says turbines 5 and 6 are available for power to run the pumps, as well as a generator.
As reported by the Down the Drain team, Turbine 4, which was supposed to have already been fixed, has not yet been released, but is currently being tested. And after next Wednesday’s board meeting, they should have a better idea of when to go online.
Meanwhile, business owners will need to develop their own flood plans.
Meg: “So, how many times do you have to keep lifting things?”
José Guggh, sheet metal worker at Orleans Sheet Metal: “Eight years’ worth, eight years’ worth. It’s getting old. Yes, we have to raise all the machines and everything.”
Sheet metal workers like Gog at Orleans Sheet Metal Works and Roofing, near Orleans Avenue and Broad Street, take videos of what happens when it rains.
“Here a bus with kids passed by and the car flooded. It’s my car, it’s the owner’s car,” Gog points out.
The extremely heavy manufacturing machinery is worth more than $60,000 each and must be raised every time a storm occurs. Two days worth of production is lost. And we have to hire more workers for cleaning.
“Every time there was heavy rain, there would be flooding. When we took the vehicles out of the canal, things seemed to be a little better for a while, but recently it seems like the pumps have stopped working,” says Ohlins Sheet Metal. said Tracy Alonzo, co-owner of the company. Construction and roofing work.
In the 800 block of Fulton Street, hotel garage employees are already stocking sandbags and ready to fight the ever-invading rainwater.
With a perfectly presented flower shop across the street, you won’t have to worry about rain or motorists.
“The problem we have is when cars come screaming down the road like they always do, and then we have a wake and there is water in the facility,” says Perfect Presentation. said owner Johnny Lopez.
“Oh, when they come through here, it’s going to get even worse, because the water level is already high, so it’s like it’s going to push up like a door, and as we come inside the floor and stuff like that. “It’s always going to be wet on the door,” said Loyalty Club owner Blake Robinson.
He’s right down the street. He is also the drummer for rapper G-Eazy and designs clothes for his store. He says when it rains on Fulton Street, it means he can’t go home right after work.
“This street is very, very flooded. When it starts raining, you don’t even like going out, and it doesn’t even have to be a heavy rain,” Robinson said.
Mr. Blake and other employees from a nearby restaurant also came out in front of the submerged car.
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