Fifty-five percent of Louisiana residents living within 20 miles of the coast are worried that a major hurricane will hit their community during the next six months, but 79 percent of them say they are prepared. That's from a recent survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health. The survey was conducted in June of 1,000 people in Louisiana over the age of 18 that live near the coast. It was part of a larger study on hurricane preparedness that the school has conducted annually for the last three years.
The top worries of respondents threatened or hit by Hurricane Katrina are that they would not have enough fresh water to drink (42% very worried) and that they would not be able to get needed medical care (41% very worried). The survey of 5,055 people was conducted in eight states-Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas-and only included residents of high-risk counties, those within 20 miles of the coast. The poll also included a special sample of the New Orleans metropolitan area. ...
Seventeen percent of the Louisiana respondents said that even if government officials called for an evacuation in the face of approaching hurricane, they would still stay.
Despite the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, a sizeable number of people living in high-risk hurricane areas say they would not evacuate due to a major storm if government officials said they had to leave. Nearly one in four (23%) Katrina-affected respondents and 28% of other high risk area respondents would stay in their homes. Of those respondents who would need help to evacuate (20% of Katrina-affected respondents and 18% of others), nearly half (46% Katrina-affected and 49% other high-risk respondents) have not arranged that help. Approximately one in four pet owners (25% Katrina-affected and 27% other high-risk respondents) do not have a place they could go and take their pet.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
Fifty-five percent of Louisiana residents living within 20 miles of the coast are worried that a major hurricane will hit their community during the next six months, but 79 percent of them say they are prepared. That's from a recent survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health. The survey was conducted in June of 1,000 people in Louisiana over the age of 18 that live near the coast. It was part of a larger study on hurricane preparedness that the school has conducted annually for the last three years.
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