8:30 LRN Newscast

A year ago at this time, LaFourche Parish and other southeast Louisiana parishes were experiencing destructive winds from Hurricane Ida. Lafourche parish president Archie Chaisson says about 25-hundred households in Lafourche still live in temporary housing. But Chaisson says areas that looked like a war zone in Ida’s aftermath, are starting to look more normal again.
Cut 8 (10) “…recreation activities.”

It was 17 years ago today when Hurricane Katrina made landfall, and filmmaker Edwards Buckels’ documentary “Katrina Babies,” tells a story many haven’t heard, it’s from the perspective of children who lived through it. Buckles says he found a common theme when he interviewed others like himself.
Cut 4 (08) “…of New Orleans.”
“Katrina Babies” is streaming on HBO/Max.

New research conducted by LSU determines that if it was not for climate change, up to 50-percent of residences in Houston’s Harris County would not have been flooded by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Lead author and LSU Sociology Professor Kevin Smiley says the climate change-fueled flooding hit low-income Hispanic neighborhoods the hardest…
cut 11 (09) “….Latino residents”
Smiley says part of the reason why low-income neighborhoods flooded has to do with the historical development of Houston along its waterways and surrounding petrochemical corridor.

LSU entomologist Aaron Ashbrook says this summer’s love bug population is bigger than normal and he says the consistent rainfall is the main factor…
cut 14 (03) “….much better”
Ashbrook says love bugs will mate for 12 hours and the female can lay an egg mass that has 100 to 350 larvae.