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Skybox, Beat DownTV Web sites set up streaming of Gustav's arrival
Local entrepreneur Paul Glasco of Skybox Sportshow, Beat Down TV and Lamp Studios has arranged live video streaming of Hurricane Gustav as it arrives. The links are www.beatdowntv.com and www.skybox.homestead.com. The vantage point is a residential area near the Lake Charles Country Club, looking skyward. “We will have 3 live cams … and we’ll get random video [...]
Inmate jumps out of evacuation bus, but quickly caught
BY VANESSA C. DEGGINS AMERICAN PRESSA Calcasieu Correctional Center inmate is back behind bars — elsewhere — after attempting to escape while being evacuated.Around 6 p.m. Saturday, prisoners were being transported — via school bus — to a northern location to wait out Hurricane Gustav, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Kim Myers. The prisoners were being escorted [...]
People and pets evacuated from Lake Charles
Lake Charles evacuation continued
Evacuation of Lake Charles
Evacuees waited Sunday, Aug. 31, to be loaded onto buses at the Lake Charles Civic Center. Around 60 buses were mobilized for the evacuation, which ended Sunday evening.
Billboard at West Prien Lake Road and Lake Street
Sign of times
Slow drive
The American Press' Jim Beam's Sunday, Aug. 1, column
Planning for storm complicated“What’s your game plan?” a colleague asked me Friday morning.The plan she was asking about, of course, was what I was going to do about evacuating if Hurricane Gustav became a threat to Southwest Louisiana.Unfortunately, I didn’t have a plan. And the one my wife put together fizzled when we heard hotel [...]
National Weather Service Lake Charles Forecast Office updated wind table
Parish Start 40 mph wind Start 60 mph wind Start 75 mph wind End 75 mph wind End 60 mph wind End 40 mph wind Max wind Acadia 8 am Monday 2 pm Monday 7 pm Monday 10 pm Monday 4 am Tuesday 9 am Tuesday 85 mph Allen 11 am Monday 6 pm [...]
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