Lightning strikes 3 aboard boat in Louisiana while New Orleans floods

VENICE, La. – Three radical were struck by lightning successful Louisiana connected Friday, portion parts of New Orleans were flooded.

Patrick Harvey, manager of the Plaquemines Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said the radical were aboard a vessel successful the Mississippi River adjacent Venice erstwhile the lightning onslaught happened. 

Harvey said the victims were met by an ambulance erstwhile they returned to enactment and were past taken to a New Orleans infirmary for treatment. The grade of the injuries was unclear. 

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File representation of a lightning onslaught successful a agrarian area.

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Venice sits astir 75 miles southeast of New Orleans, which was rocked by severe weather Friday. Several Tornado Warnings and Flash Flood Warnings person been issued successful the region.

Storm reports from the National Weather Service showed respective roads person been flooded successful New Orleans aft storms dumped respective inches of rainfall connected the Crescent City.

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Winds of astir 50 mph person been reported adjacent Venice, and arsenic precocious arsenic 60 mph astir 20 miles southwest of Venice.

Heavy rainfall is expected to taper disconnected for New Orleans Friday night, but unsettled upwind volition stay done astatine slightest Mother’s Day weekend.