http://973thedawg.com Acadiana's Best Country Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:06:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://973thedawg.com/hurricane-preparedness-week/ http://973thedawg.com/hurricane-preparedness-week/#comments Tue, 29 May 2012 14:29:03 +0000 Jill McCoy http://973thedawg.com/?p=80632 Hurricane preparedness week started May 27 and it lasts until June 2. We are quite familiar with hurricane season and the official hurricane season starts this Friday, June 1. The coast of Louisiana and Texas have faced hurricanes many times. FEMA (The Federal Emergency Management Agency) and NOAA (The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) are partnering together to promote 2012 National Hurricane Preparedness Week.

]]> http://973thedawg.com/hurricane-preparedness-week/feed/ 0 NOAA.com http://973thedawg.com/tropical-storm-emily-could-be-trouble-for-the-u-s/ http://973thedawg.com/tropical-storm-emily-could-be-trouble-for-the-u-s/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:39:14 +0000 Bruce Mikells http://973thedawg.com/?p=18931 It's August and that means two things, back to school and the tropics are heating up with tropical storms and hurricanes. The season in 2011 has been quiet enough, but I think we are about to see  Rob Perrillo's tail start wagging as we get into the meat of the hurricane season. Just yesterday the Hurricane Center in Miami upgraded an area of disturbed weather located just east of Martinique to tropical storm status. The cyclone will be called Emily, now where is Emily going to go?

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