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In A Year Without Parades, Mardi Gras In New Orleans Is All About House Floats

Aubri Juhasz

New Orleans officials canceled all the Mardi Gras parades this year. But that didn't stop some residents from getting into the spirit anyway. They decorated their houses for drive-through parades.

A woman looks at a New Orleans house, which has been decorated with giant flowers and birds to resemble a Mardi Gras float.

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No Mardi Gras Parades, So Thousands Make 'House Floats'

Associated Press

All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as floats because the coronavirus outbreak canceled the elaborate parades mobbed by crowds during the Carnival season leading to Fat Tuesday, which is Feb. 16.

In this Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, Mondo Kayo parades down Chartres Street during Mardi Gras, in New Orleans. A subdued Carnival season begins Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, after the coronavirus pandemic put an end to the crowd-heavy balls and street parades that draw thousands of people to the city every year.

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Pandemic-Era Mardi Gras: No Big Crowds, But Plenty Of Cake

Associated Press

The Mardi Gras season always starts on Jan. 6 and ends on Fat Tuesday, which this year falls on Feb. 16. The season is usually marked by extravagant balls and parades where costumed riders throw trinkets to the mobs of people packed along the parade routes.