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. Plaquemines Parish residents may have dodged a bullet in avoiding the worst impacts of Hurricane Sally. Parish President Kirk Lepine says the parish is now expecting only minor effects, but they are continuing to brace for a storm that has shown an indecisive track in its slow approach to land.
Cut 11 (08) “…guard down yet.”
Orleans Parish Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Director Collin Arnold says they are encouraged by current forecasts. The area is under a flash flood watch until Thursday morning. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell says all 99 of their drainage pumps are ready to respond and can handle up to one inch of rain per hour…
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.