BATON ROUGE, La. (WVLA/WGMB) — Gov. John Bel Edwards urged Southwest Louisiana residents to evacuate Wednesday, as Hurricane Laura threatens to bring 170 mile-an-hour winds and an “unsurvivable” storm surge as high as 20 feet. The hurricane will be among the strongest to ever hit a Gulf Coast state familiar with natural disasters. “In my […]
by: Harrison Golden BATON ROUGE, La. (WVLA/WGMB) — Gov. John Bel Edwards urged Southwest Louisiana residents to evacuate Wednesday, as Hurricane Laura threatens to bring 170 mile-an-hour winds and an “unsurvivable” storm surge as high as 20 feet. The hurricane will be among the strongest to ever hit a Gulf Coast state familiar with natural disasters. “In my five years as governor, I don’t think I’ve ever had a press conference where I’m trying to convey the sense of urgency I’m trying to convey right now,” Edwards said Wednesday morning. “You’re going to hear ranges of storm surge that you haven’t heard in Louisiana since Hurricane Audrey in 1957.” The governor joined a team of state officials and meteorologists, many of them worried not enough residents of the Lake Charles area have heeded their warnings. “There’s going to be places that are going to be unrecognizable,” National Weather Service meteorologist Ben Schott said.
