Heads up for anyone headed towards Louisiana/Mississippi gulf coast region

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  1. drvrtech77

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    expected to be a category 3 storm at landfall on Sunday.
     
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  3. JonJon78

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    Tempers must be high sitting in that traffic. Can't believe tomorrow will be exactly 16 years from the day of Katrina and now this storm is hitting. Crazy.

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  4. drvrtech77

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    Louisiana has now gotten 5 Hurricanes and 2 tropical storms since June of last year…mother nature don’t like Louisiana..
     
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    • June 7, 2020 – Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall east of Grand Isle with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Storm surge from Cristobal reached a total of 5 ft (1.5 m) along the coastline. Infrastructure damage to southern Louisiana totaled nearly $150 million.


    • August 24, 2020 – Hurricane Marco, passed just south of the Mississippi River delta as a weak tropical storm.

    • August 27, 2020 – Hurricane Laura, as a high-end Category 4 hurricane, made landfall near the Louisiana–Texas border in Cameron Parishand simultaneously tied the 1856 Last Island hurricane as the strongest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall in Louisiana with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. Storm surge as high as 17 feet was measured at Rutherford Beach and a wind gust of 137 mph was recorded at Lake Charles. Widespread severe damage occurred across southwest Louisiana with coastal areas experiencing devastating storm surge and inland areas experiencing catastrophic wind damage. 33 people died in Louisiana from the storm and an estimated $17.5 billion in damage was inflicted across the state.[33]


    • October 9, 2020 – Hurricane Delta made landfall 15 miles east of where Laura made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph. Delta hampered the ongoing recovery efforts from Laura which made landfall six weeks prior.[34]


    • October 28, 2020 – Hurricane Zeta made landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph,[35] with the eye passing directly over the entire city of New Orleans. Zeta also surpassed the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane for the latest date in a calendar year in which a major hurricane has made landfall in the continental United States.


    • June 19, 2021 – Tropical Storm Claudetteformed near Houma, Louisiana and brought gusty winds and heavy rainfall to the southeastern portions of the state.


    • Ouch!!…louisiana has a bullseye on them.
     
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    Well the Gulf needed a hurricane to churn the water. A big dead spot was developing.

    I think this is a win for the fishes.
     
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    It’s looking more and more like the eye is going to pass to the west of NOLA. Not a good thing!
     
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