Does anyone know how did Fort Polk LA area fare.
Thank you.
You could say Folk Polk is more in West Central Louisiana than being in South West Louisiana. It seems like it is much higher ground than Lake Charles...
I imagine they had some winds over 80 miles an hour, but they were too far inland and too far east to see anything but some rain and wind.
There was a tornado warning near Oakdale Friday night, but I doubt anything became of that.
Sounds like Mississippi might have more trouble today with tornadoes than Western Louisiana did Friday and Saturday.
Probably power outages, but there were severe power outages in Northeast Mississippi after Katrina, and that was quite a ways inland...
My in-laws run a [the] Thai restaurant in Leesville. They kept open, sometimes without power, during the storm. I heard second hand that the wind was 60 mph gusting to 90, which frankly sounds a bit high based on what the forecasts were, but that things were basically O.K. I imagine there were lots of trees down. I tried checking the Leesville Daily Leader [newspaper] website, but they had nothing past last Thursday.
Well, now the Leader has some news on its website, and a lot of pictures of destruction, much of it from trees. It looks pretty bad to me, but they are apparently recovering.
http://www.leesvilledailyleader.com/
I have a real good friend that lives on base at Ft. Polk and they were going to ride out the storm but I got an e-mail from her this morning and she and her 2 kids are staying in Florida w/ her parents b/c they have no power, no water and no school for at least 12 days or so.
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