From Dr. Aguillard: St. Mary Parish Schools to Close Friday, September 12th due to Hurricane Ike
Like most residents, the St. Mary Parish School Board is closely monitoring the projected point of impact for Hurricane Ike. In light of the recommended voluntary evacuation of low-lying areas, the potential for tropical force winds in the parish, and the need of our residents to have sufficient opportunity to secure and protect personal property, the St. Mary Parish School Board has canceled all classes, athletic events and school activities on Friday, September 12, 2008. All schools are expected to reopen on Monday, September 15th.
School personnel are requested to secure classrooms and electronic equipment prior to departing today.
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From the National Weather Service:"ACROSS ST. MARY PARISH...BURNS POINT...CYPREMORT POINT...AND MOST AREAS SOUTH OF THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY WILL LIKELY FLOOD ON
FRIDAY."
Gov. Jindal just announced voluntary evacuations for low-lying areas of St. Mary Parish, including those in Baldwin and Franklin south of the railroad tracks. He also said that the weather would be bad beginning about 6:00 on Friday evening and continuing through about noon on Saturday--and that's IF Hurricane Ike continues on its projected course.
And Shreveport is probably not the direction we would want to run in if Ike decides to curve back into Louisiana.
Didn't we JUST do all of this?
sudu
Howdy folks,
Just some links that would be of assistance/entertainment.
(1) The official National Weather Service office that covers St. Mary Parish is actually the office over in Lake Charles. There you can find all the weather alerts/forecasts/poorly-designed visual aids produced for St. Mary Parish. Their website is: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/
(2) A related link is the National Weather Service's Tropical Weather page. From there you can get all of the official maps and forecast discussions that the media uses to make their own forecasts, as well as an archive for all of this year's storms, not to mention some interesting stuff on the major storms to hit our area of the world (Read: Hurricanes Rita and Audrey), as well as some pretty cool articles that give the climatological explanation for why hurricanes come to this end of the Gulf of Mexico, and also hurricanes that hit between Houston and Lake Charles always seem to make landfall right by Sabine Pass:
http://www.srh.noaa.govlch/tropical/tropic.php
(3) If you get your weather from KATC TV3 (and if you should!), you've seen Rob, Dave, and Kari show the official guidance models using Google Earth. If you're a weather/GIS nerd like I am and want to look at them yourself, go to http://tropicalatlantic.com/ to download the data plots that can be plugged into Google Earth.
Whilst we in St. Mary Parish are on the far-eastern end of the Hurricane Warning, it doesn't mean that we're exactly out of the woods in terms of weather. We will be experiencing Tropical Storm conditions throughout Friday and into Saturday, and will probably experience conditions akin to what Mobile, Alabama experienced with Gustav, namely plenty of squalls and rain the whole time.
The threat of storm surge is unusually high for a storm of this strength because Ike has proven to be quite a strange storm with its extremely large wind field. This wind field is going enable a much larger area than usual to be impacted by storm surge. Please heed the evacuation orders, even if they are voluntary.
Remember for Hurricane Rita that Vermilion Parish only had a mandatory evacuation south of LA Highway 14. We all know how that worked out for the folks in Erath and Delcambre. I should know, as I was on one of the teams that were pulling folks off of their roofs and having the bottom of our airboat's hull scrap the tops of pickup trucks. Please be proactive and be ready to go.
Stay safe everyone.
Loren C. Klein (FJHS)
Town of Gueydan/Vermilion Parish OHSEP (July 2005-July 2008)
The wind and back water tomorrow, 9/13/2008, will tell the tale.
Joe
Friday 5:00 P.M. OEP meeting reported an expected tidal surge crest at approximately 5:00 A.M. on Saturday. High water has closed LA 317 and LA 319. Flood waters are rising rapidly in the Glencoe area. Franklin is fighting rising water in the Franklin Canal (levee is holding). Weather Service has projected another 1-2 feet of tidal surge. Two shelters are open in the parish: G.W. Hamilton (Baldwin)and City Park Recreation Center in Franklin. Weather expected to improve significantly by Saturday afternoon. Dr. Aguillard
Friday 5:00 P.M. OEP meeting reported an expected tidal surge crest at approximately 5:00 A.M. on Saturday. High water has closed LA 317 and LA 319. Flood waters are rising rapidly in the Glencoe area. Franklin is fighting rising water in the Franklin Canal (levee is holding). Weather Service has projected another 1-2 feet of tidal surge. Two shelters are open in the parish: G.W. Hamilton (Baldwin)and City Park Recreation Center in Franklin. Weather expected to improve significantly by Saturday afternoon. Dr. Aguillard
CHS did not receive any new damage. We still had several minor areas that continue to leak. The best news, is no flooding down the cafeteria hall way.
I texted all of you who gave me your cell number.
I hear Willow street is flooded? Can anyone confirm?
Well, willow street is flooded. I was told 18 inches in the gym. That is from my child-care provider who lives very close to Hernandez. I live in Ashton and we have severe flooding. The national guard is posted in my driveway (Vacherie Rd./Cypremort Rd.) keeping everyone from going toward Glencoe as the water is now over the highway. At first it looked like it would be similar to Rita, but not as bad, but this afternoon we broke the Rita record. Flooding must be more severe out towards Glencoe and Louisa, but I don't know as the road is impassable. I am very curious about the status of school on Monday as I may be looking at cleaning up a foot of water in my house after the water recedes.
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