Forecasters say there’s a high chance a disturbance over the Bay of Campeche will develop into at least a tropical depression. Marti Calhoun with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles says the system will begin to move north tomorrow and bring several inches of rain to south Louisiana starting on Friday.
“Upwards of five to seven inches could fall across some places but it’s hard to say where that max will fall.”
Calhoun says the broad low-pressure area will likely develop into a tropical depression late tomorrow or early Friday. She says once that occurs, they can provide a better forecast on rainfall potential.
“We can get a better handle on it and kind of see how it’s evolving, where the rain mass is going to be and we can forecast it out really well from there”
No flood watches are posted yet, but there’s a strong likelihood for heavy rainfall on Friday and Saturday. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is advising residents to get flood insurance for what should be an active hurricane season, he says only 25-percent of the property owners in Louisiana have it.
“The best insurance by any property owner anywhere in our state can make is the still significantly subsidized National Flood Insurance Program benefitting Louisiana more than any other state by far.”
Donelon says if you do not have flood insurance and your home is flooded you may get some federal assistance to help recover your losses, but homeowners covered by flood insurance end up getting much more.
“They give out grants every time, FEMA grants, the average grant is 9,500 dollars but the average payment for an insured property is 90,000 dollars.”
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