through the port where this hurricane made landfall. other statistics. a buoy offshore reported a 27 feed when the storm was almost over the top of it. imagine that out in the gulf. 27-foot waves. other statistics. right now, 167,000 people in louisiana without power. that number obviously will grow. if you are wondering, the population of louisiana is 4.6 million. right now at 167,000. of course the big population centers, baton rouge, to new orleans, those are yet to be hit by the hardest winds. new orleans, we are four to six hours of these storm s winds reaching you. in baton rouge, that won t happen until 27h 7:00 or 9:00 p.m. this even when the center goes right over you at 9:00 or 10:00. tropical storm warnings go all the way into central mississippi with this storm. early tomorrow morning for you to the north. wallen deck, alexandria, along with friends in biloxi, mobile, heading almost into pensacola, but not quite.
what the concern is today, new orleans is labeled on the map right there. that s always the concern in the northcentral gulf along with our friends in biloxi and gulf port and mobile and panama city. the storm has taken a more westward trend. the intensity to this point until tuesday morning only supposed to be a category 1 hurricane. so don t write that in stone as just a category 1. after that, we re going to take the storm in the landfall late tuesday night, early, early wednesday morning, and the hurricane thinks it could be a category 2 hurricane at landfall. they re pin pointing the mississippi coast. the yellow area now includes the south central portions of louisiana coast, new orleans is kind of in the middle of that cone. along with gulfport, biloxi, mobi mobile. and now panama city is out of the cone and pensacola is on the edge. when storms make landfall, the