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Published: Nov 25, 2009 - UPDATED: 1:10 p.m. Louisiana gained 4,700 jobs in October but fell further behind 2008’s employment pace, something for which Hurricane Gustav is partly responsible, state officials said.
Pier that's less than four months old closed indefinitely today because of storm damage.
GULF SHORES, Ala.
Tropical Storm Ida has come ashore near Mobile Bay in southern Alabama with top sustained winds weakened to about 45 mph (75 kph).
Squalls ahead of a rare late-season tropical storm that was crawling toward the Gulf Coast blew in heavy rain Monday as residents hunkered down mostly at home to ride out high winds and anticipated flooding.
Nikki Buskey Staff Writer HOUMA - Just a few weeks after construction finished on the Leon Theriot Lock in Golden Meadow, the new flood-protection measure was put to an unexpected test.
An updated lock would have speeded up moving barges to Mississippi River, some say
GRAND ISLE, La. - Even though Tropical Storm Ida made landfall more than 100 miles away from Grand Isle, a levee on the island breached and threatened several homes along the southwestern tip of the island. "At one point, I would say closer to midnight, it was almost a losing battle," said Chris Hernandez, Grand Isle's Street Department Supervisor. Hernandez was part of the crew that spent more ...
But after a quiet Atlantic storm season, many took the year's first serious threat in stride.
Tropical Storm Ida came ashore near Mobile Bay in southern Alabama early Tuesday with top sustained winds around 45 mph.
Weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents refused to retreat from a steadily weakening rare late-season tropical storm that crept toward shore Tuesday, bringing heavy rain, stiff winds and some flooding.
Most Baldwin County roads are open this morning and little flooding was reported, but with more rain expected, officials are still watching levels in local rivers, Leigh Ann Ryals, Emergency Management Agency director, said today.Styx River on the east side...
GULF SHORES, Ala. - Weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents refused to retreat from a rare late-season tropical storm that weakened as it crept toward shore Tuesday, bringing heavy rain, stiff winds and some flooding.
Hurricane Ida weakened further as it headed toward oil and gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico and was forecast to make landfall overnight on the U.S. Gulf Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Monday.
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama (AP) — Tropical Storm Ida sloshed ashore with rain and gusty winds Tuesday before weakening to an extra-tropical low, leaving weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents largely unscathed. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Ida's center first touched land on Dauphin Island before heading across Mobile Bay toward the Alabama mainland. Top sustained winds dropped to ...
Hurricane Ida weakened to a Category 1 hurricane on Monday as it headed toward oil and gas facilities in the central Gulf of Mexico after killing 124 people in El Salvador following floods and mudslides.