It goes on for a very long time east of the storm. Really a much longer duration event than you get near the center or west of the center.
New Orleans might not improve much until after midnight.
I really wish SE LA maps would agree on what's land and what's water. Maybe Just declare the whole thing swamp?
Must have been almost impossible to navigate even with GPS.
There's an outer eyewall trying to form on radar. If you look closely you can see it on recon data. It's way too late for it to kick in prior to landfall though.
The open eye is misleading. There's a robust circular CDO on IR which is probably more important than the exact eye shape, which changes every 10 minutes.