Slippery road conditions from a winter storm are possible along the I-20 corridor tonight. Jeff Palermo has the details…
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Louisiana-based Tigeraire, the company that created cooling fans for athletic helmets has another hit on their hands with helping construction workers beat the heat. Brooke Thorington explains
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The entire I-20 corridor is under a winter weather advisory until nine o’clock tonight as freezing rain, sleet, and light snow will be possible through the evening. Charlie Woodrum with the National Weather Service in Shreveport says ice accumulations will be mainly less than a tenth of an inch
Woodrum says the rain should switch over to winter precipitation near the Louisiana-Arkansas border and icy conditions could start to develop for the Monroe-Shreveport areas around seven and eight o’clock…
Woodrum says with the temperature dropping below freezing across north Louisaina plan on slippery road conditions…
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The Louisiana startup company known for creating interior football helmet fans is now helping those in the construction industry cool off. Tigeraire founder and CEO Jack Karavich says their latest design for hard hats known as the Tornado provides the same reprieve for construction workers as it does for athletes.
The Tornado was unveiled recently at the World of Concrete Event in Las Vegas and Karavich says demand for the cooling fan has been overwhelming. The company has plans to build a manufacturing plant in Baton Rouge but in the meantime, fans are being constructed overseas.
Karavich says the Tornado fan is quite the upgrade from the Cyclone that was first designed for athletes. The Tornado is OSHA compliant, designed to work with multiple hardhat designs and the waterproof device weighs about 3.5 ounces. Karavich says it pumps out about 42 miles per hour of airflow.
Tigeraire hopes the Tornado will not only make working in the heat more comfortable but most importantly make it safer. Karavich says construction accidents and fatalities tend to increase in warmer months linked to human error.
The Tornado comes in two models and prices range from $75.00 to $95.00.
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The cost for a barrel of oil could rise to nearly $100 later this year. Increased demand as more and more Americans take to the roads and airways has caused the spike, but Baton Rouge economist Loren Scott says plans by OPEC Plus, a coalition of oil exporters that includes Russia, should begin to bring prices back down, sooner rather than later.
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Of course, the first place most Americans will feel the impact of higher oil prices is at the gas pump. With the state average for regular gas at more than $3.13, that could be a major hit, even if it doesn’t last long.
While folks may feel a pinch on their pocketbooks for a few weeks, Louisiana should reap some financial benefits from those higher oil prices, both for the state’s coffers and for businesses.
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A psychiatric nurse practitioner has been arrested on human trafficking and narcotics charges after authorities learned he was providing drugs for sexual favors. Rapides Parish Sheriff’s office chief of staff Tommy Carnline says 40-year-old Mark Declouet (dih-CLOUT) Junior of Alexandria was taken into custody without incident…
Declouet’s Linkedin page says he’s worked at Axis Behavioral Health and Recovery which is based in Lafayette and he was reportedly an attending clinician at Longleaf Behavior Hospital in Alexandria. Carnline says it’s likely some of Declouet’s victims are recovering addicts…
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Carnline says they believe there are more victims of this suspect out there…