NEW ORLEANS — The sound of Louisiana responding to a storm used to be a warp-speed spool of data and details, flowing relentlessly from the mouth of the state’s governor at the time, Bobby Jindal.

“We’ve requested an aircraft from Oklahoma; from Colorado, four; from Illinois, eight; from Nebraska, five; and aircraft from Pennsylvania, from Ohio, from Maryland, five additional aircraft from Kentucky,” went a typical breathless litany, this one in advance of Hurricane Gustav, which entered the Gulf of Mexico in 2008, a few months after the beginning of Mr. Jindal’s eight-year run.

In the last few days, as Tropical Storm — and, briefly, Hurricane — Barry rolled north through the state, Mr. Jindal’s successor, Gov. John Bel Edwards, brought his own rhythm to his numerous media briefings, a slower, decaffeinated style that put one in the mind of a father soberly and patiently explaining a hard financial reality to his children.

On Sunday night, Mr. Edwards, clad in a blue windbreaker and flanked by other state officials, declared that Louisiana had averted disaster, as the storm produced far less rain and damage than expected. He delivered the news in a matter-of-fact tone no different from the way he addressed residents in the tense moments before the storm made landfall.