New Orleans, renowned for its world-famous Mardi Gras celebration, rescheduled its final Carnival parades to earlier time slots ahead of expected severe winds, thunderstorms, and tornado warnings, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

With the sun rising, people stumbled out of bars and saluted the trash collectors. A drunken couple shrieked and leaped onto sidewalks to escape from the cascade of waste as Nunez muttered about Bourbon Street’s “typical foolishness.”