Per the 10 PM update, Hurricane Delta is not expected to be at major hurricane strength when it makes landfall in eastern Cameron Parish around 7 PM Friday, but forecasts still show the system moving rapidly through the state maintaining at least tropical storm strength as it cuts from southwest Louisiana to Alexandria and up into the Delta Parishes.
You are just about out of time if you live in southwest Louisiana and want to evacuate ahead of Delta. While mandatory evacuation orders are in effect in Calcasieu, Cameron, Allen, and Jeff Davis Parishes if you’re still in the region you might want to start looking at hunkering down as heavy winds should begin impacting the coast as soon as 8 AM tomorrow morning.
Acadia Parish Sheriff KP Gibson says if you’re sticking around for the storm now is the time to do one last check to make sure you are prepped and ready to ride it out…
Acadia and Lafayette Parishes are currently only under voluntary evacuation orders.
Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter is warning residents not to let hurricane fatigue keep them from leaving the city ahead of Delta’s landfall. Hunter says the sheer volume of debris still in the open in the parish makes staying behind a dangerous proposition with hurricane-force winds in the forecast. He says this year just feels like a bad dream, but this storm is very real…
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Governor Edwards echoed that sentiment saying it’s just unlucky that the already reeling people of southwest Louisiana are being put through the wringer once again. He says he hopes Cameron and Calcasieu will not have to bear the brunt of this storm…
Edwards also noted earlier today that the state will be extending its current Phase Three public health order and restrictions into November.