Complicating the emerging task of saving lives and livelihoods in this ongoing climate crisis: a new disease, released from a natural world out of balance. Two small enemies – coronavirus and heat-trapping gas – are joining forces to create pandemic patients in Lake Charles, Louisiana, worrying about blown roofs and …
Read More »Laura: As tropical depression moves through Mid-South, 8 million Americans are under a Flash Flood Watch
Early Friday morning, Laura crossed Arkansas and headed toward southeast Missouri as a tropical depression with winds of 35mph. In preparation for the storm, Arkansas deployed search and rescue teams along with members of the National Guard to help. All day long, the storm will drive across Kentucky and continue …
Read More »Laura: As tropical depression moves through Mid-South, 8 million Americans are under a Flash Flood Watch
Early Friday morning, Laura crossed Arkansas and headed toward southeast Missouri as a tropical depression with winds of 35mph. In preparation for the storm, Arkansas deployed search and rescue teams along with members of the National Guard to help. All day long, the storm will drive across Kentucky and continue …
Read More »Some residents of the Houston area to experience periodic power outages due to Hurricane Laura
HOUSTON – Texans, along with residents of the Houston area, would have to expect periodic power outages due to the impact of Hurricane Laura. Entergy announced the outage to its Texas customers Thursday after its transmission system suffered extensive damage from the hurricane. The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) instructed …
Read More »Tropical Storm Laura continues north to Arkansas
Just before 1 a.m. Thursday morning, Hurricane Laura made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. Catastrophic storm surge and wind have swept southwest Louisiana overnight. As of the 13.00 hrs advice, Laura is now a tropical storm and has sustained winds of 65mph. Further east …
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