Hurricane Sally is now a category two hurricane with the potential to become a major hurricane before it makes landfall. The good news for Louisiana is that the most recent tracks have it moving further and further away from the state and towards the Mississippi Alabama border.
That’s a quick reversal for a storm that just yesterday was thought to top out at just a category one before it was set to make landfall. National Weather Service forecaster Christopher Bannon says Sally got a bit of good luck…
Orleans Parish Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Director Collin Arnold says they are encouraged by current forecasts but it’s not good that the storm is moving slowly…
Westfield Fluid Controls will invest 5.1 million dollars to establish a manufacturing facility in Lafayette, creating 67 new jobs for the area. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says the facility will produce precision hydraulic and fluid control components.
Westfield is relocating this facility from a site in California.
The damage to the timber industry from Hurricane Laura is an estimated one-point-one billion dollars. That’s according to Louisiana Forestry Association executive director Buck Vandersteen who says Laura will definitely have a long-term impact on the state’s forestry industry.
Vandersteen says Laura impacted 770-thousand acres of forest in 22 parishes.