Rain postpones New Orleans parades

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

A healthy crowd lined St. Charles Avenue today for two of the day's Mardi Gras parades, but a threat of showers postponed one of the city's biggest and glitziest processions on the last big weekend of Carnival.

Rain held off during the morning as the Krewe of Iris headed down St. Charles, with the Krewe of Tucks behind them.

However, the celebrity-studded Krewe of Endymion's parade on elaborate floats through the Uptown area, relatively unscathed by Hurricane Katrina's floods, was put off until Sunday because of the threat of evening thunderstorms. It will roll after the Krewe of Bacchus, another "super krewe," police said.

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Postponed, but not cancelled. Indeed, some parades managed to make it before the rain started. Really, it's marvelous that Mardi Gras in New Orleans is happening at all. Meanwhile, here in Baton Rouge, everything is going as scheduled, and the devastation of the Big Easy and its reconstruction are major parade themes (see below). Becky and I attended BR's biggest and bawdiest, although nothing compared to New Orleans, event Saturday afternoon, the Spanish Town parade. It rained lightly off and on throughout, but it didn't start pouring until it had ended. Almost like fate.

Anyway, I'll try to post pics of that one tomorrow.

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