2020: A Wild Weather Year in Acadiana
Posted: Dec 29, 2020 10:02 AM
Posted By: Akemi Briggs
2020 will be remembered for many things, but especially the weather here in Acadiana.
The hyper-active hurricane season will stick in memories for years to come, but even before hurricane season took off there were multiple weather events that kept us busy.
Starting the year off, a powerful line of storms rolled through Acadiana bringing wide-spread 100 mile per hour wind gusts.
An EF-2 tornado touched down north of Krotz Springs with winds between 100 and 115 miles per hour.
Multiple mobile homes were damaged from the tornado.
In May, a potent weather system diving down from the north spawned multiple tornadoes around Acadiana including an EF-3 tornado near Church Point.
South La battered by overnight rainstorms, over 12,000 without power Thursday morning
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BATON ROUGE - Rainy weather swept through Louisiana overnight, and as of 5:45 a.m. over 12,000 power outages were reported across the state.
The majority of the outages are in Jefferson, Orleans, and Calcasieu Parishes, according to Entergy s online outage map.
A tornado threat was issued for the entire WBRZ viewing area overnight, and ended at 2 a.m.
WBRZ Meteorologist, Marisa Nuzzo says conditions are expected to clear up as the day progresses and that by December 25 many Baton Rouge residents will be treated to some very frosty weather.
Baton Rouge / louisianaradionetwork.com
Dec 22, 2020 1:05 AM
To keep residents of Cameron and Calcasieu Parishes from going without a Christmas meal, Second Harvest is distributing holiday staples today thanks to a sizable donation from Chevron. Second Harvest Food Bank Spokesperson Natasha Curley said they will be giving away food at the Lake Charles Civic Center from 10 until noon.
“Anyone who is in need, anyone who wants a little food relief can please come on down. We’re hoping to be able to take care of many, many people in our community,” said Curley.
Second Harvest has already provided more than three million meals to the area since the hurricanes. Curley said Chevron’s additional donation of $50 thousand for today’s distribution shows their ongoing commitment to the area.
Chevron and Second Harvest Food Bank host food distribution event Second harvest food distribution event (Source: Second Harvest) By Patrick Deaville | December 21, 2020 at 11:34 AM CST - Updated December 21 at 11:35 AM
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Chevron has donated $50,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank of Southwest Louisiana to help distribute turkeys, canned goods, vegetables, and more, to families in Cameron and Calcasieu Parishes following Hurricane Laura.
The food will be distributed at the Lake Charles Civic Center from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020.
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