LSU, the LSU Lab School and its Childcare Center will be closed on Wednesday in anticipation of possible severe weather from Tropical Storm Harvey, a spokesman said late Tuesday.
State offices will be closed Wednesday in 28 parishes. Also, most Baton Rouge area schools will be closed (see list below).
State offices
State offices won't be open in Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Grant, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Lafourche, Livingston, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, SAbine, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Vermilion, Vernon, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana parishes.
State offices are still scheduled to be open in East Baton Rouge and Orleans parishes, at this time, and officials continue to monitor conditions in case more parishes needed to be added to the list of closures. State employees can call (800) 360-9660 or (225) 342-0498 for updates.
Schools
East Baton Rouge, Baker, Central, Zachary, Ascension, Livingston, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Assumption, Pointe Coupee, East Feliciana, West Feliciana and St. James Parish public schools will be closed Wednesday, school officials have announced.
Also, Catholic High and St. Joseph's Academy announced it will be closed.
Catholic schools in the Diocese of Baton Rouge generally decide to remain open or closed based on what local public parish schools do, according to the diocese's website, which lists these closings:
- Ascension Catholic School (Ascension Parish)
- St Elizabeth School (Assumption Parish)
- St John the Evangelist School in Plaquemine (Iberville Parish)
- Catholic Elementary and Catholic High of Pointe Coupee
- St Peter Chanel School (St. James River Parish)
- Holy Family School (West Baton Rouge Parish)
Also closed:
- Southeastern Louisiana University
- Southern University Law Center
- All Baton Rouge Community College educational sites
- River Parishes Community College
- Baton Rouge International School
- Runnels School
- The Dunham School
- Bridge Academy
- Baton Rouge College Prep
- Baton Rouge University Prep
- Apex Collegiate
- Democracy Prep
- Celerity Crestworth
- Celerity Dalton Elementary
- Celerity Lanier Elementary
- Capitol High School
- Collegiate Baton Rouge
- Laurel Oaks Charter School
- St. John the Baptist schools
- Nicholls State University
- Lafourche Parish schools
- Kenilworth Science and Technology Academy
Other
Also, The East Baton Rouge Council on Aging announced today that due to the severe weather threat of Tropical Storm Harvey, all senior center locations of the Council on Aging will be closed on Wednesday
Bands of sometimes-heavy rain from Tropical Storm Harvey have prompted a flash flood watch for all of southeast Louisiana.
Harvey has caused catastrophic flooding in southeast Texas.
Harvey, the more fearsome hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade, came ashore late Friday about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, as a Category 4 storm. It has caused catastrophic flooding in Texas.
