Governor John Bel Edwards says to expect Tropical Storm Nicholas to be downgraded to a depression as it enters southwest Louisiana, but noting that it doesn’t take a named storm to bring dangerous conditions to the state.
Cut 4 (05) “…the primary concern.”
The governor says the rains that Nicholas brings to the state could exacerbate the problem of getting more Ida storm victims out of the dark after weeks without power.
Nicholas made landfall along the Texas coastline this morning and State Climatologist Barry Keim says the system has the potential of bringing storm surge as far east as Rutherford Beach.
Keim says Nicholas will weaken to a Depression but expects the system to leave its calling card in the form of heavy rain in Louisiana.
Keim says while the eye of the storm is only expected to be in the state for a day, he says we’ll feel the effects for a number of days.
The Louisiana Department of Revenue is taking steps to provide state tax relief following Hurricane Ida. LDR Secretary Kimberly Lewis says the department is granting automatic filing extensions to both individual and business taxpayers in the 25 parishes placed under a disaster declaration by the governor.
Cut 10 (09) “…and severance taxes.”
The automatic extended due date to file returns is now January 3, 2022.
The 504-pound alligator suspected of killing a 71-year-old Slidell man the day after Ida made landfall has been captured. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office Captain Lance Vitter says Sheriff Randy Smith promised the family of Timothy Satterlee, Sr. that they would do all they could to locate his body.
The alligator was located on Monday, two weeks after Satterlee was last seen.