The FEMA manufactured homes have arrived in Baton Rouge, and they look nothing like what we saw after Hurricane Katrina. US Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro says the federal government has learned many lessons since then, and these housing units for displaced residents are new and improved…:
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The housing units are being offered to people with space on their own property or at pre-existing commercial parks.

The National Weather Service says there is a 60 percent chance that the disturbance known as “Invest 99L” will develop into a tropical storm over the next five days, but lower chance over the next two. They say the system is moving west-northwest toward the eastern Gulf of Mexico. It’s currently a disorganized storm, but conditions could become more conducive for development over the weekend or early next week.

Several state agencies are too understaffed to handle all of the needs of flood victims in South Louisiana. West Monroe Senator Mike Walsworth says they may need to look into training state retirees in case of emergencies like this…:
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He says Louisiana is the most disaster prone state in the nation, and we need to be prepared for these kinds of events.

The LSU AgCenter says crawfish farmers will have to wait until the harvest this winter to see how much the flood impacted them. Halen Doughty has more…:
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