Hurricane Laura was « rapidly intensifying » early Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center warned, threatening to bring a life-threatening storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding to Texas …
Hurricane Laura was « rapidly intensifying » early Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center warned, threatening to bring a life-threatening storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding to Texas and Louisiana. The storm is poised to deliver a devastating blow late Wednesday and early Thursday. The Hurricane Center has projected that Laura will become a Category 3 major hurricane before landfall, with winds of around 115 mph. A major hurricane has winds of at least 111 mph. As of 2 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Laura was already a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. It was centered 360 miles south-southeast of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and 380 miles southeast of Galveston and moving toward the U. S. coast at 17 mph. One hundred years ago, the women’s suffrage movement achieved victory as the 19th Amendment officially became part of the Constitution. (It had become a done deal on Aug.18 when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, securing a two-thirds majority of the states.) The dominant narrative about the women’s suffrage movement is framed through the experiences of white women.
