Louisiana Continues Recovery Efforts from Two Hurricanes as Hurricane Zeta Approaches
By RFD-TV
Hurricane Zeta will wash ashore as damage is still being tallied from two previous hurricanes. While a final price tag has not been put on it yet, we know the ag community will measure it in terms of billions, not millions.
Hurricane Laura was a formidable storm when it came ashore in late August, breaking many records. Among them, it was the seventh named storm to make landfall in 2020 and it was only August.
According to LSU economist Kurt Guidry, "Hurricane Laura, we saw about a $1.6 billion dollar impact to both agriculture and forestry. Majority of that was in forestry, timber damage. The impact to agriculture was predominately infrastructure-driven, about $400 million dollars of about a $500 million dollar impact to agriculture. The other $100 million dollars was in terms of direct commodity impacts."
No one could guess in less than two months, another monster storm would take nearly the exact same path.