means fires could potentially spark in that area. this is in addition to the 73 large active wildfires that we currently have on going. that s spanning about a dozen states, and it s scorched nearly 3 million acres thus far. we also have tropics. we re nearing the we have the peak of hurricane season, which is september 10th. i can tell you with absolute certainty that louisiana at the moment doesn t look to be impacted by any tropical systems. but this little disturbance coming off of central america looks to twak toward the state of florida and could wrap up into our next named system, bringing them squally weather later this week. larry as fish storm, a category 3 hurricane, our third major hurricane of the season. and you can see it looks really healthy on satellite imagery. it stays to the east of bermuda, stays east of nova scotia. that doesn t mean they re not going to feel any impacts, they
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shoutout to the men and women that work at the national hurricane center before this was even named, they had a beat on this storm. they knew the intensity in the different stages and had that cone of uncertainty across areas of louisiana. it didn t deviate much. they save aid will the of lives and gave good lead time for power crews and evacuations to take place. now, why do we always hype the difference between a category two or three? it s not what you think when it comes to damage. you know, you have a category one, winds at 75 miles per hour. damage. it s just a little greater category 2. no. you can t think of it linear. it s logrythmic. winds at 150 miles per hour. it s not just category 4. it s 256 times the amount of damage that category 1 would provide. again, it s staggering when you think of that. let s look at all of the flash flood warnings that are in
hurricane stronger than ida. joining us now on the line is louisiana s lieutenant governor. thank you so much for joining us. you have so much experience dealing with these storms over the years. you are in baton rouge now. where is your focus in the state right now as the storm slowly moves across it? obviously as the stronger part of the storm approaches baton rouge this area of the state has never seen a category 2. usually they die out before they get this far north. and a lot of the homes and structures and mobile homes in this area have never been tested. and so there may be some major failures in these homes in this area that have not been tested by a hurricane before. you know, hearing that transmission problem in new orleans is just another punch in the gut for new orleans at a time when businesses were struggling with covid and shut