Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter says no, he can’t believe they’re going through another hurricane again either but you can’t let fatigue keep people from taking this storm seriously. Hunter believes that southwest Louisiana is not a safe place to be this weekend.
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Hunter says the decision to leave is one that needs to be made today.
Hurricane Delta is expected to make landfall tomorrow nearly in the same location as Hurricane Laura did six weeks ago today. Governor John Bel Edwards hopes the most impacted parts of Cameron and Calcasieu will miss the brunt of this next storm…
Edwards says they are still housing six-thousand Hurricane Laura evacuees in hotels mostly in New Orleans.
Officials have issued voluntary evacuation orders for residents of Acadia and Lafayette Parishes ahead of Delta’s anticipated landfall in eastern Cameron Parish Friday. Matt Doyle has the story.
The state reports 526 new COVID-19 cases today out of 12,300 tests… statewide total is at 170,621. Total fatalities… 5,416, up by 5. Hospitalizations increase by 12 to 564, with 79 patients on ventilators.