Tristan Baurick

One of 17 "evacuspots" located around New Orleans for city-assisted evacuations, this one at the Sanchez Center in the Lower 9th Ward at 1616 Caffin Ave. (Michael Isaac Stein/Verite)

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane season presents an annual test of the New Orleans area’s collective fight-or-flight response. In the past, emergency managers tilted toward flight, leading evacuations that moved tens of thousands of people to safer ground before storms made landfall. But as climate change throws faster and stronger hurricanes at the Gulf Coast, local […] The post Faster, stronger hurricanes outpace the New Orleans area’s evacuation plans appeared first on Louisiana Illuminator.

This fall, Nunez Community College in Chalmette will launch a two-year program that trains students for the growing wind energy sector.

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