Des Allemands News

Lafourche Parish is preparing to begin more than $6 million in flood protection projects for the Raceland and Des Allemands areas.

Five area parish presidents will gather Friday morning at the home of St. Charles Parish residents Lisa and Robert Taylor in Bayou Gauche to discuss the anticipated ramifications of the B iggert-Waters Act on local communities, and lay out a road map for fighting against the implementation of the controversial law.

A severe thunderstorm warning is in effect for the area marked in black until 4:45 p.m. The National Weather Service has extended the area of a severe thunderstorm warning to include southern Jefferson Parish and parts of Lafourche, St.

Government and business leaders from 14 parishes across south Louisiana are in Washington D.C. right now to fight FEMA's flood insurance rate maps and the flood insurance reform law enacted last July.

Not many trumpet players can say that they have traversed the country -- and the globe -- in a tour bus playing music with the likes of Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders, Billy Joe Royal, and the Drifters.

A civil engineer has been hired by St. Charles Parish to challenge proposed FEMA flood maps that have put over 9,000 structures in the parish in special flood hazard areas for the first time.

Earthquakes have made headlines from Anchorage to Mexico City. On April 22, 2009, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake was recorded near Centreville, Ala., about 40 miles southwest of Birmingham.