The Arabi Webcam is located at the  SBPG Port ship service in Arabi. Arabi is an unincorporated community in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana on the East Bank of the Mississippi River, between the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana and Chalmette within the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area. The population was 8,093 at the 2000 census. In 2005, the area was virtually destroyed by storm surge and wind associated with Hurricane Katrina which topped the back levees and destroyed the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (MRGO) levee. The area was re-flooded weeks later by Hurricane Rita when a temporary levee patch failed. The rebuilding process had begun by December, 2005. Arabi was established in the later 19th century as a suburb of New Orleans along the east bank of the Mississippi River. It was at one point part of Orleans Parish. A 1951 map calls the area Jacksonburgh, assumed to be named after Andrew Jackson. Arabi began as the community known as Stockyard Landing, because of the many stockyards and slaughterhouses located there. In the rear yards of some of houses in Old Arabi there are remnants of blood traps from the area and when excavation for swimming pools is done, residents have found dishes from New Orleans Hotels and restaurants whose table scraps were once used to feed animals. Business interests' of the stockyards wanted to be free from control of New Orleans and persuaded the state of Louisiana to transfer dominion of the area to downriver St. Bernard parish. View the Arabi Webcam

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