It has been really dry across Louisiana for several weeks now, leading the Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal to issue fire bans across several Louisiana parishes.
When you think of Louisiana, you think of swamps and the mighty Mississippi, you don't think of droughts. However, we're still experiencing drought conditions well into fall...
I noticed scores of my friends here in North Louisiana complaining about the ant issues in their homes on social media. It's like it's some kind of ant plague.
It was a lot of rain in a short amount of time, but apparently it wasn't even a drop in the bucket to wet the ArkLaTex drought. Motorists experienced a nightmare of a commute on some roads in Shreveport that were flooded. Several were even stranded in their cars.
We got a lot of reports yesterday morning about trees falling across roadways. What caused that? The LSU Ag Center's Area Forestry Agent Ricky Kilpatrick told me: