ABOVE: Floodwaters rise at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin, Louisiana, August 26.
LOUISIANA UNIVERSITIES MARINE CONSORTIUM (LUMCON)
Update (August 27): The subheading of this story has been updated to reflect the strength of the storm and when it made landfall.
As of this morning (August 26), the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, a field station on the Gulf Coast, was already flooded with two feet of water. “We anticipate several feet more” as Hurricane Laura heads toward Louisiana this evening, says the facility’s director, Craig McClain, in an email to The Scientist.
This morning, the National Hurricane Center predicted the storm, currently a category 3, will become “an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane.”
The staff at Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) have been working to button up the labs since last week to guard against both Tropical Storm Marco, which brought heavy rains to the Gulf Coast this week, and ...
