At 7pm The National Weather Service reports that Tropical Storm Barry is 85 miles south southeast of Morgan City with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph. The storm has been meandering a bit in the past few hours but is expected to resume a motion toward the west-northwest near 4 mph. Barry is then expected to turn towards the north Saturday or Sunday. The center of the storm will approach the south-central coast of Louisiana tonight and then make landfall over the south-central Louisiana coast on Saturday. Strengthening is forecast before landfall, and Barry is still expected to be a hurricane when the center reaches the coast tomorrow.
State Department of Transportation spokesperson Rodney Mallett says in preparation for flash flooding crews have been cleaning out ditches
Governor John Bel Edwards says Louisiana is looking at a major rain event as Tropical Storm Barry shows signs of strengthening into a hurricane. Jeff Palermo has the story….
President Trump makes a federal declaration of emergency for Louisiana as Tropical Storm Barry approaches. Congressman Garret Graves says there are open lines of communication between the Bayou state and DC and says the feds are keeping a finger on the pulse of the situation.