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As Isaac continues its slow approach toward New Orleans, a tree has landed on a house on St. Charles Avenue, wires and other trees are down in numerous Uptown neighborhoods, flooding has been reported in the Lower Garden District and other roads have been closed, according to reports from the mayor’s office early Wednesday. Continue reading »
The officers of the NOPD Second District are responding to the Hurricane Isaac in their second 12-hour shift, working out of a temporary headquarters at Children’s Hospital. Continue reading »
A 54-year-old man was arrested late Wednesday morning and charged with looting at a gas station at Carrollton Avenue and Earhart Boulevard, authorities said. Continue reading »
Power outages blanketed Uptown New Orleans by 11 a.m. Wednesday. (map via Entergy)
Hurricane Isaac brought driving rain and strong winds to New Orleans Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, flooding streets, downing trees and knocking out power to almost all of Uptown New Orleans. Continue reading »
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Four men were arrested Tuesday evening on charges of looting a Central City business, police said. Continue reading »
Approximate locations involved in a police chase of two young men believed to be involved in car-burglary attempts. They were first reported on Annunciation, then spotted in backyard on State, and finally apprehended in two locations on Webster, police said.
Two people attempting to get into parked cars along Annunciation Street led police on a chase through several Audubon neighborhoods Tuesday afternoon, and one attacked a resident who tried to stop him, before they were apprehended, authorities said. Continue reading »
With the expectation that power and Internet access will become limited Tuesday evening or Wednesday, Uptown Messenger will provide live coverage of Hurricane Isaac’s arrival in Uptown New Orleans through Twitter, visible in the box below. Continue reading »
Local schools governed by the Recovery School District and Orleans Parish School board will remain closed through Thursday, officials announced. Continue reading »
A passer-by lends a hand as Hank Staples affixes an “Open for Business” sign to the boarded-up front of Maple Leaf Bar on Oak Street. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Employees board up the windows at Chiba, another Oak Street business planning to stay open as much as possible through the storm. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
“Oak Street is open for businesses,” said Chiba owner Keith Dusko. “The 8300 block, anyway.” Continue reading »
A Magazine Street business boards up its windows Monday afternoon. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Tropical Storm Isaac’s projected track, as of 1 a.m. Tuesday. (source: National Hurricane Center)
As of the 1 a.m. Tuesday update from the National Hurricane Center, Isaac’s winds were still at 70 mph, just shy of hurricane force, and its path continued to center on New Orleans. Forecasters expected the winds to accelerate to hurricane speeds overnight, and for New Orleans to begin feeling its effects in earnest Tuesday morning. Continue reading »
A New Orleans police detective examines a wallet taken in a home invasion on Pitt Street and apparently discarded by the fleeing suspects Monday night. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Two brothers were tied up and robbed at gunpoint inside a Pitt Street home in the Riverbend on Monday night, police said. Continue reading »
Drivers or boaters going more than 5 mph on flooded streets will be issued tickets, NOPD officials said.
“We will enforce that with zero tolerance,” said NOPD Superintendent Ronal Serpas in a news conference Monday afternoon. Continue reading »
(source: NOPD.com)
(Approximate location of the 3300 block of South Saratoga, via Google maps)
A 25-year-old man was gunned down around 10 a.m. Monday in the driveway of an apartment complex in the 3300 block of South Saratoga, police said. Continue reading »
(source: National Hurricane Center)
Although considerable uncertainty remains in the National Hurricane Center forecast, New Orleans is now near the center of the possible paths for Isaac’s landfall Wednesday morning. Continue reading »
Schools under the control of the Recovery School District and the Orleans Parish School Board will be closed Monday through Wednesday in anticipation of Tropical Storm Isaac, officials said. Continue reading »
(source: National Hurricane Center)
Hurricane conditions are expected within the New Orleans metropolitan area and “preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion,” forecasters warned as their computer models show Isaac’s path drawing gradually nearer to the city. Continue reading »
(source: National Hurricane Center)
The broad, uncertain path of Tropical Storm Isaac and its expected increase in intensity have prompted a hurricane watch that now includes the New Orleans area, according to the National Hurricane Center. Continue reading »
Big-budget superheroes, computer-animated cartoons and even a few family classics are among the selections for this fall’s “Movies in the Park” series in Uptown parks. Continue reading »
Ted Argote and his daughter, Kate, check in on the jungle carpet python (at bottom right) that has recently taken up residence in liriope in front of their Panola Street home. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Shortly after 9 a.m. Friday morning, Ted Argote returned home from dropping his wife at work, parked in front of his Panola Street home and, as he walked out the door, called out a greeting to the paisley-patterned python that has recently begun sunning itself every morning in the front yard.
“Good morning, Indiana!” Argote said, using a nickname picked in homage to Harrison Ford’s famously snake-averse archaeologist.
While the sudden appearance of the exotic jungle carpet python on Panola Street was odd, even odder still is the litany of wild animals appearing around Uptown of late, and residents’ largely nonchalant reaction to them. With a supposed boa constrictor on Burdette, parakeets in Palmer Park, a peacock on Cohn and a fashionable little kangaroo (or wallaby) spotted on upper Magazine Street, it has been hard to tell this week where the zoo stops and the neighborhoods begin. Continue reading »