1230 PM LRN News

Louisiana will be spared much of any impact from Sally as the Hurricane took an abrupt turn for the Alabama coast before reaching The Boot. State Climatologist Barry Keim says Sally was always an unpredictable system due to its sluggish two to three-mile and hour pace…

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Hurricane Sally is expected to drop up to 30 inches of rain on parts of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle as it creeps onto land early tomorrow morning.

Entergy Louisiana spokesperson Brandon Scardigli says the lights will come on for a majority of Calcasieu and Cameron Parish Entergy customers September 23rd. That’s big news for the tens of thousands of people in southwest Louisiana who still don’t have power.

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The LSU Ag Center estimates the agriculture and forestry losses from Hurricane Laura exceeds one-point-six billion dollars. Jeff Palermo has the story…

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LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron told reporters this morning that he thinks “most” of the LSU team has already contracted COVID-19, and that three to four players right now have the disease. That’s left the coach optimistic that, assuming you can’t get the virus twice, the team will be spared any major interruptions once the season begins.