LSU Football Coach Ed Orgeron said during a zoom press conference with reporters that most of the players on his team have tested positive for the coronavirus. SEC schools perform three tests a week on their student-athletes. LSU’s first game is a week from Saturday against Mississippi State. He’s hoping that since a majority of the players have tested positive for COVID-19 that they’ll avoid a coronavirus outbreak during the season
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…
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.
The LSU AgCenter estimates Hurricane Laura caused 525-million dollars in damage to Louisiana farmers and one-point-one billion dollars to the Louisiana timber industry. AgCenter economist Kurt Guidry says wind damage was the big factor…
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In comparison, agricultural losses from hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005 totaled one-point-five billion dollars.
Entergy Louisiana expects to have power available to the majority of customers in Cameron and Calcasieu Parishes by September 23rd, with the remaining customers online by September 30th. Laura came ashore August 24th and Entergy Louisiana spokesperson Brandon Scardigli says she left an incredible amount of damage in her wake…