Videos Show Significant Flooding Around New Orleans, Louisiana

Hurricane Francine made landfall in South Louisiana Wednesday as a Category 2 storm just before sunset around 5 pm near Morgan City. Winds reached 100 mph, and the storm dumped as much as 12 inches of rain in some areas, with the storm surge reaching 10 feet in the lower-lying regions.

Hurricane Francine made landfall in the evening, so now that the sun has come up, residents are able to assess the structural and flooding damage from the storm.

After a large storm passes, Louisianians want to 'go take a look' at the damage, but scrolling through videos from the comfort of your own home may be the safest option.

Videos Show Significant Flooding Around New Orleans, Louisiana

This video instantly went viral; a man was saved from drowning by a bystander after driving under the Canal underpass.

This video shows how overloaded New Orleans' drainage system was during Hurricane Francine. Many residents in the comments joked that the city did not need a Hurricane to see water gushing from manholes, as shown in the video, "They always do that no need for a hurricane".

This weather map reveals just how much rain was dumped over the New Orleans area during the storm. The regions highlighted in green got the worst of it and experienced the most flooding.

Even in the worst of times, locals lend a helping hand, and in this case, a life was saved.

Metarie definitely saw some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Francine, which is evident in this video.

This video shows the dangers of driving during a flash flood. The water rises quick and before you know it your forced to climb up on the roof of your vehicle like these folks had to do.

At least 26 people were rescued from their homes in Thibodeaux, Louisiana.

"Catastropic Flooding" is right. This is the reality for many residents in the Metairie area.

While experts would probably condone this behavior, its probably safer than stalling your car out in the flood waters.

LaPlace is one of the lower-lying areas that had several feet of rain dumped on them during Hurricane Francine.

First responders get stuck, too; many times, while being called out to help residents, they are prevented from doing so because of contentions like these.

With so much rain coming down in such a short period of time, this canal overflowed in Metairie.

Here you can see just how deadly the storm surge was from Hurricane Francine.

There was no shortage of local heroes during this storm.

Many residents reported seeing vehicles stalled out on roadways due to flash flooding in the New Orleans area.

Kenner saw high flood waters across the city during and after the storm passed through.

This has to be one of the more adorable things captured on video during the storm.

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