[NautiNurse]

Damaging Winds and Flooding Rainfall Spreading Inland Over Western
and Central LA...

...Life-Threatening Storm Surge Continues Along Much of the LA Coast...

800 AM EDT Update

Location...About 20 MI N of Fort Polk LA
Max Sustained Winds...100 MPH
Moving...N at 15 MPH
Minimum Pressure...970 MB

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles from the center
and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles

On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here-->

[texanyankee]

I waiting for CNN to describe Laura’s landfall as “mostly peaceful.”

[Red Badger]

[Viking2002]

The BMX NWS office was only forecasting a 30% of any precip here in East Central, but the watch and warning map is lit up like a Christmas tree now and it appears (on Doppler radar, anyway) that a band is going to sweep through from SW to NE in the next few hours.