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Severe damage reported after tornado hits downtown area of New Orleans (vi a @sergiongonzalez )

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
235 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN EATON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN...
EASTERN BARRY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN...

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 233 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF BEDFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
 

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BRAC’s preliminary analysis of potential magnitude of flooding’s impact on the Baton Rouge region

(Takes you to a PDF).

The numbers (just for the Baton Rouge Area) are staggering.

Baton Rouge region residences
- 31% of homes within the nine parishes are located in areas identified as receiving flooding.
- More than 110,000 homes are located in flood areas.
- As a whole, the estimated total value of those homes located in areas identified as flooded is $20.7 billion.
- 280,910 Baton Rouge MSA residents live in areas identified as receiving flooding.
- 66% of the homes in flood areas were owner-occupied, 22% were renters; 9% were vacant.
- As a region, a maximum of 15% of all homes – not solely in the flood-impact areas – were insured against
flooding.

Baton Rouge region businesses
- Overall, 7,364 businesses employing 73,907 individuals are located in areas identified as floodaffected.
- These represent 21% of businesses in the overall Capital Region, and these specific
locations employ 18% of area employees.
- Proportionally, businesses in Livingston experienced the most severe impact with 3,305 businesses that employ
27,653 employees in the areas of flood-impact, representing 91% of businesses and 94% of employees.
- 2,055 businesses were located within the impacted area of East Baton Rouge, employing 22,298 people,
representing 9.1% of businesses and 7.7% of employees at those businesses.
- Other parishes with high percentages of affected businesses include Ascension, East Feliciana and St. Helena.
- Within the region, the hardest hit industries are retail (1,126 businesses with 12,107 employees), construction (756;
6,873), healthcare (487; 9,350), manufacturing (239; 4,966), and food services/drinking places (386; 5,223).

East Baton Rouge Parish only
- 82,573 residents live within the areas that experienced flooding.
- 32,857 housing units are located within the area that experienced flooding, representing 16.9% of the housing in
the parish.
- 60.9% of these were owner-occupied, 31.4% were renter occupied, 12.8% were vacant.
- 74.6% of these housing units carry mortgages.
- The effects of the flood in East Baton Rouge were borne across racial lines – 47.6% of those living in the impacted
area are black residents, while 46.5% are white.
- The total value of the homes within affected areas was approximately $5.7 billion.

Livingston Parish only
- 125,113 Livingston residents were in flood-affected areas.
- 48,827 housing units in Livingston are located within the area that experienced flooding, representing 86.6% of
Livingston homes.
- 69.6% of these housing units were owner-occupied, 17.2% were renter occupied, 6.2% were vacant.
- 66.7% of these housing units carry mortgages.
- 12,210 homes, or 21.7% of homes, in the entire parish were covered by flood insurance policies.
- More than $9 billion worth of homes are in flood-affected areas; the combined coverage of all Livingston flood
policies, in full force, amounts to less than $2.5 billion.