Hurricane Sally is expected to brush past the Bayou State tomorrow a several southeast Louisiana coastal parishes are not taking this storm lightly. Jeff Palermo has the story…
As of the 7PM Advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Sally is 100 miles east of the mouth of the Mississippi River with max sustained winds of 100 miles per hour. The storm is moving West-north-west at 5 miles per hour.
Westfield Fluid Controls will invest 5.1 million dollars to establish a manufacturing facility in Lafayette, creating 67 new jobs for the area. Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says the facility will produce precision hydraulic and fluid control components.
Westfield is relocating this facility from a site in California.
The damage to the timber industry from Hurricane Laura is an estimated one-point-one billion dollars. That’s according to Louisiana Forestry Association executive director Buck Vandersteen who says Laura will definitely have a long-term impact on the state’s forestry industry.