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- The Rolling Stones concert at the Superdome has been postponed to Monday.
- Flights are canceled at the Louis Armstrong International Airport.
- A cruise ship was diverted to Mobile, Alabama, instead of returning to New Orleans.
With Tropical Storm Barry stretching across New Orleans, hundreds of tourists see their weekend program turned upside down.
The Sunday Rolling Stones concert at the Superdome was to be a treat for Shelly Hiatt-Saboorian.
She and her husband, Dustin Saboorian, had been planning their trip for weeks. Shelly, who works for an advertising agency in Atlanta, said she had not had a vacation all year and that Dustin had also been extremely busy at work.
The Stones and Superdome announced Friday morning that the concert was moved to Monday because of the storm.
"We are extremely disappointed," Shelly told weather.com. "We had already planned to come back on Monday because we have to be at work early Tuesday."
Now the couple are afraid of not getting their money back because the concert has been postponed and not canceled.
Concerts are not the only activity disturbed by Barry.
About 3,600 passengers on the Carnival Cruise cruise ship landed in Mobile, AlabamaThursday, more than 130 km from its home port in New Orleans, said WPMI.
(MORE: What's new on Tropical Storm Barry?)
The cruise line used buses to drive passengers to New Orleans or to the airport. Buses also transported passengers from New Orleans to Mobile for the cruise that began Thursday.
"A disadvantage, but it's good when you go on a cruise, you never know what the weather will be like," passenger James Childress told WPMI.
According to hotels in New Orleans, hundreds of customers have canceled their reservation or decided to leave early due to the storm.
A woman walks past a cigar bar and bar in the French Quarter with sandbags along the doors in anticipation of Tropical Storm Barry in New Orleans, Louisiana on Thursday, July 11, 2019.
(Seth Herald / AFP / Getty Images)
Ben Turner, General Manager of Château LeMoyne's French Quarter, told nola.com: "We had several cancellations.. We expected to be almost full on weekends, especially with the Rolling Stones in town, but we currently have an occupancy of about 60%. "
Turner said that the hotel and its staff had already suffered hurricanes and that they were ready for Barry.
"We have a storage room with all the necessary equipment, food, water, batteries, flashlights and everything else," he said.
Sorority Delta Sigma Theta has cut two days of its national convention in New Orleans because of the impending storm.
In a Facebook posting, Beverly E. Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer of the group, said the deal would end on Friday after the election and installation of officers. It had been scheduled to run until Sunday.
Anyone trying to leave New Orleans on Friday had long lines at the Louis Armstrong International Airport.
Starting at 4 pm CDT Friday, 36 flights were canceled for Friday and another 75 are canceled for Saturday, according to flightaware.com.
Most airlines have removed fees to alter flight arrangements, said Erin Burns, spokesman for the airport.
Friday afternoon, city officials asked tourists to "shelter" WDSU reported that in their hotels if they did not have a confirmed reservation for flights outside the city. Kristian Sonnier of the New Orleans Tourism Agency said that people could not stay at the airport.
Despite his disappointment about the concert, Shelly Hiatt-Saboorian was not going to let the storm ruin his weekend.
Shelly Hiatt-Saboorian and her husband, Dustin Saboorian, had planned to see the Rolling Stones in concert at the New Orleans Superdome on Sunday night. Now, with Zoey and Bailey, they go to Asheville, North Carolina.
(Shelly Hiatt-Saboorian / Instagram)
She and Dustin loaded their two dogs, Bailey and Zoey, in the car and headed in the opposite direction: a bed and breakfast and a brewery in Asheville, North Carolina.
"We just decided to get out of the city," she said from the road.
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