NEW ORLEANS — Many residents across New Orleans spent their Sunday drying out, including Treme resident Jalence Isles.
Isles took to Instagram Saturday night during the storm. She posted a video walking through the water to save her car.
“I attempted to do so and I was literally knee deep in water," Isles said, “It looked like a swimming pool.”
Isles said this isn't the first time her street has flooded, and she's reached out to the City of New Orleans about only having two catch basins nearby following a road improvement project.
"Also, allegedly, when the street was repaved, the drainage was going to be adequate. This my friends does not look like adequate drainage," Isles said on her Instagram video.
On Sunday, you could see the water line on her neighbor's homes.
“It wasn’t even much of a hard hard rain and it flood. It’s very sad," neighbor, Denise Buckner, said.
While some neighbors were vacuuming and drying out their cars, Ahmad Ordu said his wife's car stalled nearby on North Broad Street.
“This morning, I went to go check on it. It wasn’t starting. It wasn’t operational. So, I had to call a tow truck," Ordu said, “And now we have to deal with our car insurance. We have to figure out how we’re going to replace her car.”
Treme wasn't the only area that flooded Saturday. Video from New Orleans East, to Uptown, the CBD and even the French Quarter saw water. Vehicles were stalled across the city.
The Sewerage and Water Board said some area saw between 4-6 inches of rain over the course of 2-3 hours.
“This surpasses our capacity to handle one inch of rain per hour for the first hour and half an inch of rain every hour after," SWBNO said.
The utility also said that Turbine 4 was offline due to mechanical issues and power was being rationed. The same issue caused similar flooding just two months ago.
SWBNO said Turbine 4 is more than 100 years old. The utility said once its infrastructure projects are completed, power issues will improve.
The estimated completion date is at least 18 months away.
In the meantime, residents like Isles want to see accountability for the flooding.
“I returned to the city excited to invest in my city, purchase my first home and all of that good stuff, and honestly it’s been a mistake," Isles said.
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