You cant tell from looking at the streets still under water, but the Gulf Coast got lucky with this storm.
Barry, which made landfall as a hurricane Saturday, quickly turned into a tropical storm and has been inundating Louisiana ever since.
Even as a weaker tropical depression Monday, Barry is still dumping heavy rain on parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas, prompting a wave of new flash flood watches.
But fears of devastating storm surges and catastrophic flooding didnt materialize.
