Governor Edwards says the state continues to move people seeking shelter from Hurricane Laura into hotels.
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Entergy Louisiana now has a two to three-week timetable for the restoration of power to most of Cameron and Calcasieu Parish, the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Laura. CEO Phillip May told us earlier today that 1,000 transmission towers are down in the two parishes.
FEMA Individual Assistance has now been approved for 16 hurricane ravaged parishes. Senator Bill Cassidy is optimistic that unlike the great south Louisiana flood of 2016 there won’t be the mass duplication of benefits problems that plagued those victims of a natural disaster.
During the 2016 flood many received government assistance in the early days of their recovery and were not eligible for other government aid that became available later.
A Monroe Senator wants you to call your local superintendent and tell them you want the LHSAA to back high school football for the fall. LHSAA Executive Director Eddie Bonnie has said football games cannot happen in Louisiana until the state reaches Phase 3 of its economic reopening, but Stewart Cathey Jr. argues our neighbors are already making it work…