Author: Stacey Plaisance
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Weather delays divers from searching for shipwreck survivors
PORT FOURCHON, La. • Families anxiously awaited news of the 12 people missing from a capsized oil industry vessel Thursday while stormy weather delayed divers from searching for survivors. Rescuers don’t know whether any of the missing might be caught inside the lift boat called the Seacor Power that flipped over Tuesday in hurricane-force winds…
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Hurricane Zeta hits Louisiana with flooding, power outages
NEW ORLEANS • Hurricane Zeta slammed into the storm-weary Gulf Coast on Wednesday, pelting the New Orleans metro area with rain and howling winds that ripped apart buildings, knocked out power to thousands and threatened to push up to 9 feet of sea water inland in a region pounded by multiple storms this year. The…
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Gulf Coast braces, again, for hurricane as Zeta takes aim
NEW ORLEANS • Residents of the storm-pummeled Gulf Coast steeled themselves for yet another tropical weather strike Tuesday as Tropical Storm Zeta took aim at southeast Louisiana, fraying the nerves of evacuees from earlier storms and raising concerns in New Orleans about the low-lying city’s antiquated drainage pump system. Zeta, the 27th named storm of…
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Busy hurricane season, Louisiana now bracing for Delta
MORGAN CITY, La. • For the sixth time in the Atlantic hurricane season, people in Louisiana are once more fleeing the state’s barrier islands and sailing boats to safe harbor while emergency officials ramp up command centers and consider ordering evacuations. The storm being watched Wednesday was Hurricane Delta, the 25th named storm of the…
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Laura gains strength, could bring ‘unsurvivable’ storm surge
DELCAMBRE, La. • Laura strengthened Wednesday into a menacing Category 4 hurricane, raising fears of a 20-foot storm surge that forecasters said would be “unsurvivable” and capable of sinking entire communities. Ocean water topped by white-capped waves began rising ominously as the monster neared land. Authorities implored coastal residents of Texas and Louisiana to evacuate…
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4 dead, several injured across South in outbreak of twisters
ALEXANDRIA, La. • A swarm of tornadoes and other storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured at least a dozen and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes on Tuesday. The death toll rose to four after heavy overnight…
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Video: Mother of 2 makes NFL cheerleading squad at age 40
NEW ORLEANS — She hadn’t done splits and high kicks in years, but 40-year-old dance instructor Kriste Lewis set a lofty goal — to try out for the New Orleans Saints cheerleading squad, known as the Saintsations. Faced with competition from women in their 20s and 30s, Lewis never thought she’d make the team —…
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‘Regis and Kelly’ talk, work, play in Orleans
Talk-show hosts Kelly Ripa left, and Regis Philbin, back, helped assemble a playground sign at an elementary school in New Orleans. (AP) Photo by