Francine is now a Category Two hurricane. We just got the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center. It says Francine is now packing maximum sustained winds of 100 miles an hour. It has moved to within 40 miles south-southwest of Morgan City and is moving northeast at around 17 miles an hour. That means we’re expecting the storm to make landfall within the next hour or two.
State Climatologist Jay Grimes says while this is shaping up to be a severe storm, the worst will be over by the end of the day today.
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Governor Landry and GOHSEP say if you have not evacuated by now, it’s too late. The best thing you can do is to hunker down, ride out the storm and stay off the roads.
As far as power outages go, almost 24-hundred customers in St. Mary Parish are in the dark. And for those and others who lose power, it could be out for quite a while.
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Tangipahoa (TAN-jee-pa-HOE-ah) Parish President Robbie Miller says there is a strong emphasis on ensuring power and water services remain operational, with backup systems in place for medical facilities. Miller says Entergy has invested millions making the infrastructure more robust…