They’re big, they’re beautiful, and as 2020 proved, they can be deadly. Moving forward tandem floats that roll through the streets of New Orleans must be decorated with a new safety requirement. “It’ll be akin to what you see at construction sites, that orange flexible fencing ]that’ll be affixed to the floats,” said James Reiss co-chair of the Mayor’s Mardi Gras Advisory Council. A draft of a new city ordinance would require the space between.
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To get back to the level of celebration for Mardi Gras so many of us miss, the pandemic requires a mass response. That applies to people of every color. Author: Thanh Truong / Eyewitness News Published: 10:53 PM CST February 15, 2021 Updated: 11:00 PM CST February 15, 2021
NEW ORLEANS To see Zulu floats this Mardi Gras, you have to find them. One is the house float at the home of Jay Banks, a New Orleans City Councilman and chairman of the board of directors of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club. We asked Councilman Banks for his thoughts on how to celebrate Mardi Gras during a pandemic.
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Show Transcript on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Any to Good morning. And welcome to the Rex Din. I m Mark Romig special thanks to the U. S. Marine Corps band stationed in New Orleans and the honor guard from the New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy today on Mardi Gras Day. For the first time in recent memory, the Rex parade will not leave this den. We will miss seeing you and your family and your friends as you celebrate Mardi Gras and your own unique sort of way in lieu of a parade, we have prepared a very special presentation. We ll start as we always do on Mardi Gras Day, with a prayer from Monsignor Christopher Nulty today from the historic ST Louis Cathedral. We will then share with you video presentations from the wrecks organization in the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure
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The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club headquarters building should remain high and dry during future flooding, thanks to a $340,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to an announcement from City Hall.