About 92-hundred households in six parishes hit hard by Hurricane Laura are eligible for housing assistance and that includes the opportunity to put a FEMA trailer on their property. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Louisiana saw a 15 percent decline in the rate of women who were murdered by men from 2017 to 2018. Matt Doyle has the story.
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FEMA is providing manufactured housing units to residents in southwest Louisiana who are not able to live in their homes because of Hurricane Laura damage. FEMA Division Supervisor Gerry Stolar says there are about 92-hundred households in six parishes who qualify for this type of assistance
Stolar says they are also looking at putting dozens of manufactured homes in lots around Lake Charles.
FEMA trailers caused illnesses for those living in the portable homes after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, because of a hazardous level of formaldehyde. Stolar says those issues have been resolved
FEMA will contact residents whose homes have been identified as uninhabitable to determine their housing needs. FEMA Individual Assistance Supervisor Liz Redfearn says if a Laura survivor initially declines the offer, they can reconsider
FEMA says there are 11-thousand storm victims living in 47-hundred hotel rooms in Louisiana.
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For the first time in two weeks, there are no tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Basin, after a breathless few weeks where as many as five named storms were active in the Atlantic at once.
State Climatologist Barry Keim says the quiet period is due to the nature of tropical systems…
The National Hurricane Center is currently not monitoring any systems other than the scattered remains of Beta currently in Mississippi.
Keim says he’s still expecting a record this year for named storms…
There have been 23 named storms this year, eight hurricanes, and two major hurricanes. The record for named storms was set in 2005 with 27.
Keim says some of the modeling community is projecting after about a week’s break the Basin will again start churning out systems…
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Louisiana saw a notable drop in the rate of women murdered by men in 2018, about 15 percent.
Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Director Mariah Wineski says it appears a number of legislative efforts are finally coming to fruition.
54 female homicide victims were identified in the report for 2018, with 34, or 63 percent, of them being Black women.
67 percent of victims were killed with a firearm, but Wineski says a 2018 law requiring domestic abusers to transfer possession of their firearms is just now coming into play.
Despite the drop, Louisiana still had the 5th highest rate in the nation. Wineski says we have a lot of work to do when it comes to identifying situations that will eventually become homicides.
Louisiana’s rate of 2.26 victims per 100,000 women in 2018 was 77 percent higher than the national average.
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Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser has received a flu shot and he’s encouraging all Louisiana to get the vaccination as well. Nungesser participated in a Walgreens Flu Shot promotion with Baton Rouge Senator Regina Barrow
Nungesser says it’s especially important to get the flu shot this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Nungesser says getting the flu shot can save your life…