Pretty nuts night here. Some student apartments and buildings apparently have water in them. Think we avoided an actual touchdown though, not seeing any damage reports locally.
Maximum Sustained Wind Overall (mph): 140mph
Maximum Sustained Wind at Landfall (mph): 135mph
Pressure at Landfall (mb): 942mb
Landfall Location: Timbalier Island
Already has, in fact. The intensification of the storm into a Cat 1 today from a TD yesterday more than qualifies as RI. Question is really how many times this storm pulls it off.
Convinced a friend at Tulane to get out of dodge sooner rather than later. With the storm rapidly intensifying already, not much in its way to stop it from getting close to or maximizing its potential.
nailed it. vacationing just around there - house is easily within walking distance. Pretty crazy to think that house (likely) was at some point prime beachfront property. Was probably always too close to the shore (as is the still occupied one near it on about 20ft of stilts), but pretty neat regardless.