[NautiNurse]

There will be storm surge, significant in some areas. There is concern too for backwater flooding from rivers north of Lake Charles and Beaumont/Port Arthur. Forecasts have also predicted up to 25" of rain over the next several days.

[steveegg]

A bit late to include in the raft of links above (I just noticed this), but the Lake Charles NWS office has a blog up. Among other items:

9:20 PM - Just got off the conference call with the National Hurricane Center. No major changes to come with this forecast package, other than reducing the intensity to 105 knots/120 mph.

9:15 PM - We have achieved hurricane status...64 knot/74 mph wind gust at 9:07!

9:10 PM - With the power out at the airport, the automated observing unit on the runway complex (the unit which supplies the official hourly weather for Lake Charles) has only about 30 more minutes of functionality before the backup batteries run out.