Hurricane warnings have been dropped from Louisiana’s coastline as Hurricane Sally is crawling towards a landfall near the Mississippi-Alabama coastline early tomorrow morning. National Weather Service New Orleans Meteorologist Robert Ricks says Sally is moving northwest at just two miles per hour…
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Southeast Louisiana is no longer in the cone of uncertainty, but Governor John Bel Edwards says state offices in a dozen parishes are closed today…
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We are now up to 20 named storms for the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The record is 27 set in 2005. The next named storm this year will be Wilfred and then we move to the Greek Alphabet.

A portion of Louisiana’s coastline remains under a storm surge warning as Sally moves closer to the Central Gulf Coast. A storm surge of six to nine feet is expected from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Dauphin Island. Plaquemines Parish President Kirk Lepine says he’s concerned about flooded highways…
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In other news, one of Louisiana’s two Fortune 500 Companies, CenturyLink based in Monroe, is changing its name to Lumen Technologies. Mass Markets President Maxine Moreau says they’re taking on a new vision that’s aimed at creating technology that helps companies through the 4th industrial revolution.
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Moreau says their headquarters will remain in Monroe. Lumen employs 40-thousand worldwide, 18-hundred of them are in Louisiana.