The LSU AgCenter estimates Hurricane Laura caused 525-million dollars in damage to Louisiana farmers and one-point-one billion dollars to the Louisiana timber industry. AgCenter economist Kurt Guidry says wind damage was the big factor…
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In comparison, agricultural losses from hurricanes Rita and Katrina in 2005 totaled one-point-five billion dollars.

Monroe-based CenturyLink is changing its name to Lumen Technologies as the telecommunications provider says it’s reinventing itself so it can help its customers through the fourth Industrial Revolution. Consumer President Maxine Moreau says their new vision will not result in a re-location of headquarters…
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Lumen as its now called employs 18-hundred workers.

Hurricane Sally is crawling towards a landfall near Dauphin Island, Alabama tomorrow morning with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour. National Weather Service New Orleans Meteorologist Robert Ricks says Sally is moving northwest at just two miles per hour…
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Sally is no longer a threat to Louisiana, but Governor John Bel Edwards says state offices in a dozen parishes are closed today…
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We are now up to 20 named storms for the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The record is 27 set in 2005. The next named storm this year will be Wilfred and then we move to the Greek Alphabet.