Hurricane Sally is expected to make landfall Tuesday, likely along the Mississippi coast, but Louisiana residents will experience some of the effects. Matt Doyle has the story.
President Trump has approved Governor John Bel Edwards request for federal aid connected to Hurricane Sally. Edwards had submitted a pre-landfall declaration to the White House and FEMA on Sunday.
The Louisiana Forestry Association projects the state industry will take a 1.1 billion dollar hit from Hurricane Laura’s devastating arrival in southwest Louisiana. executive director Buck Vandersteen says there’s so much timber on the ground, it is hard to salvage more than 15-percent of it…
Cut 11 (12) “…reduce production.”
Vandersteen says Laura impacted 770-thousand acres of forest in 22 parishes.
67 new jobs are coming to Lafayette as Westfield Fluid Controls announces they’ll build a 5.1 million dollar manufacturing facility in the Northpark Technology Center. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says the average pay is just under 50,000 dollars a year, and benefits are included.