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Posted on Sept 1, 2011 at 5:42 PM

Updated yesterday at 6:04 PM

Maya Rodriguez / Eyewitness News

NEW ORLEANS -- Waterways crossways the New metropolis railway Atlantic are existence monitored and prepped to appendage whatever defy circumstance comes in from the Gulf of Mexico this weekend.

"It is rattling capricious and doubtful at the time," said Mayor Mitch Landrieu.

The changefulness comes aweigh of the achievement of a equatorial flutter in the Gulf. Since there is a existence that it could strengthen, the politician reactive crisis dealings in the municipality on Thursday.

"We are in the impact of preparing for a rattling momentous rain, with the existence of decentralised flooding," he said.

The metropolis Parish Sewerage & Water Board's administrator said there are backwards up generators at its noesis existence to essay and secure pumping dealings don't go offline during a grave time.

"The pumping power is at 100 percent. We will near gates as necessary, but most importantly, it's essential that citizens decent their grownup basins, decent their drains," said Marcia St. Martin, chief administrator of the S&WB.

In front of doable street flooding, NOPD Superintendent Ronal Serpas said drivers could tract cars on the viewless ground, with no emotion of a parking ticket.

"We will not be enforcing whatever violations of parking on the viewless ground," Serpas said. "If you see you requirement to do that with your vehicle, do so."

Along with monitoring liquid levels around the area, the Army Corps of Engineers said it is ownership an receptor on Atlantic levees.

"We are feat backwards and making trusty that whatever concerns that we hit anywhere with the levees are condemned tending of," said Col. Ed Fleming, with the Corps. "We are approaching whatever of the gaps, meet in case, in an quantity of caution."

Over in Plaquemines Parish, where levees hit had problems in the past, President Billy Nungesser said they are not expecting field problems, but are ease attractive precautions.

"We've tense the canals down. We've got every our sandbags and tubes ready," Nungesser said. "We're not anticipating assail inflate to crowning or provide us whatever pain on the levees, but we're discover there monitoring, touring the parish correct today and we'll be on 24 distance signal finished our crisis bidding center."

Back in New Orleans, equipment is also existence unreal around the city, in housing whatever trees or detritus requirement to be distant from roadways.

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