Drowning out the hate
June 21, 2017
Lafourche Parish Booking Log – June 20
June 21, 2017
Most of the Houma-Thibodaux area was free from rain on Wednesday morning, which afforded low-lying areas a break after a night of heavy rain.
Tropical Storm Cindy remains in the Gulf of Mexico and her strength remained the same overnight.
The center of the storm is located at 27.5 degrees north and 92.2 degrees west. Maximum sustained winds are still 60 mph – consistent with a small increase from last night.
The storm is moving northwest at 8 mph and forecasts call for a landfall around midnight around Lake Charles.
But intense wind shear has continued to make Cindy disorganzed. Most of the storm’s rain is hundreds of miles from the center – battering Mississippi and Alabama on Wednesday morning with several inches of rain falling along the coasts of both states during the past four-to-five hours.
In Louisiana, the rain is stopped for now, though it may resume again later today, according to meteorologists.
As Cindy continues to move west, the bands that are to the area’s east now may move back into Louisiana, providing the rain.
Officials in Lafourche and Terrebonne parish worked overnight to help remove debris and water from roads, where possible.
At 6 a.m., LPSO announced that ALL roadways in the parish are open for traffic, though, they should be driven with caution – especially in the southern reaches of the parish where standing water remains in some places.
In Fourchon, some workers were a little late to the job site, but they did eventually pile in and business is operating somewhat normally, given the circumstances.
Yesterday afternoon and throughout the night, southern Lafourche Parish was blitzed with consistent rain – upwards of 8 inches in some gauges.
“It was pretty bad yesterday,” said a worker who asked The Times to protect his identity because he wasn’t sure if his employer allowed him to talk to press “The water got high and the winds were consistently 45-50 mph at some points. It just makes you wonder – how bad could it get if we ever really got a lick from a big one?”
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declared a State of Emergency this morning for the entire state, as Cindy creeps toward the shore.
Fourchon/Grand Isle area flooding
