New Orleans marks Mardi Gras with house floats instead of parades

New Orleans residents are marking Mardi Gras by driving and walking past homes decorated as ’house floats’ as authorities have banned large public gatherings over Covid-19 fears. They are calling it as ’Yardi Gras’ as people have decorated their houses and yards in a variety of themes. The idea for the house floats came from a Mardi Gras regular, Megan J Boudreaux, who had suggested it on Twitter.