Tropical Storm Lee leaves some shelves empty of D batteries and sand

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As the sun started to peek out from behind rain clouds around noon, Will Samuels, the owner of restaurants La Dolce Nola and Pizza Nola, posted to Twitter: "We hope you've enjoyed our Tropical Storm. We now resume our regularly scheduled fretting," Samuels wrote.

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MICHAEL DeMOCKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Doug Depp, aka King Neptune,rules the floodwaters in front of his house as rains from Tropical Storm Lee flooded the Lake Marina Roadway on Saturday, September 3, 2011.
Tropical Storm Lee Saturday, September 3 gallery (21 photos)

By midday, thanks to dry air that broke apart Tropical Storm Lee's heavy rain bands, people in metropolitan New Orleans breathed a sigh of relief and threw the rubber boots in a corner: at least until nightfall.
This evening, the sluggish, unpredictable Lee could kick out more rain, if thunderstorms developing to the south of the system in the Gulf of Mexico replace the dry air, warned Phil Grigsby, a meteorologist with the Slidell office of the National Weather Service.

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