What's making news in Acadiana this morning
 | BY ANDREA GALLO | Staff writer With roofs torn off, windows busted and elevator shafts broken, hospitals in southeastern Louisiana lost 200 to 300 hospital beds in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, even as they braced for a save of post-storm cleanup injuries and the state more broadly continued to struggle with the fourth wave of the pandemic. Read more |
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 | BY MARK BALLARD | Capitol Bureau editor Images of tens of thousands of New Orleans residents fleeing a city flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 demonstrated the vulnerability of the levees and led to a $14 billion improvement. Read more |
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 | By CARLY BERLIN | THE LENS This story was co-published with Southerly. Read more |
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 | BY MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN | Staff writer The U.S. Coast Guard has begun setting up a pollution response team in Baton Rouge after state and federal officials received reports of several dozen oil spills or sheens since Hurricane Ida. Read more |
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 | BY GORDON RUSSELL | Staff writer The ghastly problems that festered after residents of seven New Orleans-area nursing homes were evacuated to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish had less to do with the emergency plan itself than with the way the manager of those facilities executed it, Louisiana Department of Health officials said Sunday. Read more |
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 | BY LIAM PIERCE | Staff Writer A 74-year-old New Orleans man has died of heat exhaustion due to the lack of power after Hurricane Ida, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. Read more |
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 | Keeping your home clean and sanitized is essential these days to try to keep germs out of the house. Mopping may not be the most fun chore … Read more |
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|  | If you've been missing your local coffee shop and their piping hot espresso, there's plenty of espresso makers, brews, and accessories you … Read more |
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|  | Exercise always seems like the last thing on the list that you can get done. Work, kids, chores — they all seem to come first. But ignoring… Read more |
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