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Just waking up in Lafayette parish. Live in Carencro. No damage to the house. Yard full of branches. The neighbor’s dying tree lost an 8 ft long branch in my yard. We’ve had some power blinks. Called sister who lives near Youngsville, far south part of Lafayette parish, and she’s without power, water came close to the house, and roads are flooded. About to turn on local news with a cup of coffee. I start my 3pm-11pm shift today. I’ll be working in the yard before going to work this week to clear the branches.
SUMMARY OF 800 AM CDT...1300 UTC...INFORMATION
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LOCATION...31.4N 93.2W
ABOUT 80 MI...130 KM SSE OF SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...100 MPH...160 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...N OR 360 DEGREES AT 15 MPH...24 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...970 MB...28.64 INCHES
its down to cat 2 as it heads for the Shreveport and then eventually Little Rock areas... its about 50 miles west of Alexandria currently, so they will be feeling the worst of what they'll get now...
This was BS. All the storm surge predictions were all overblown. My dad sits at 13 feet above sea level, not a drop in his house. They had predicted 7 feet in his house.
Even the Civic Center in downtown Lake Charles was not flooded.
People from other parts of the country think they know the local terrain. My dad said they were all wrong and he was right. He rode the storm out. He doesn't have power but no damage to his house.
This was BS. All the storm surge predictions were all overblown. My dad sits at 13 feet above sea level, not a drop in his house. They had predicted 7 feet in his house.
Even the Civic Center in downtown Lake Charles was not flooded.
People from other parts of the country think they know the local terrain. My dad said they were all wrong and he was right. He rode the storm out. He doesn't have power but no damage to his house.
It's being talked about in the weather community as well. I'll have to look more but highest I saw earlier was the just over 9ft near Cameron which was right on the North tip of storm. So that means the highest surge likely would have been several miles east of there. There aren't many sensors out this region however so it may take awhile to tell what the peak actually was, they'll be sending teams out to look for water marks. The Freshwater Canal gauge went offline before it made landfall at a few feet, hopefully it kept recording. And USGS had a temp gauge near Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge. Haven't seen data from that one yet.
But thankfully the storm didn't wobble West which would have likely brought higher surge into Cameron and Lake Charles. But we want to know what's truly going to occur. And situations like this creates a big problem for an actual higher surge into town in future storms because everyone will say it won't be bad or didn't reach in storm Laura.
Thurs 6pEDT,1pCDT
Winds 65mph(100km) - Tropical Storm now
Moving N 15mph(24km/h)
Pressure 988mb
Center about 65miles(100km) ENE of Shreveport, LA
Last edited by Psychoma; 08-27-2020 at 12:44 PM..
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