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Sunday, Aug 30, 2020 - 7:56 pm
Alexandria, La. (August 30, 2020) — Sunday marked the fourth day of recovery efforts as City of Alexandria crews, aided by crews from Florida, Missouri and other locations, continued working to restore utility services and clean up damage caused by Hurricane Laura Thursday morning. “It’s been a grueling four days,” said Alexandria Mayor Jeffrey W. Hall. “I think we’re finally starting to turn the corner. We have all of the main utility circuits back online, roughly 82 percent of our electric customers have service and our water system is nearing a full recovery. My heart goes out to those...
Saturday, Aug 29, 2020 - 8:46 pm
Alexandria, La. (August 29, 2020) — City of Alexandria crews continued working throughout the day to restore utility services and clean up damage caused by Hurricane Laura. “It was another day of good progress,” said Alexandria Mayor Jeffrey W. Hall. “We still have a lot of work to do. We have neighborhoods like Martin Park and Airview Terrace that are still in the dark. I want the residents in those areas, and everyone who is still without power to know we are coming. Some areas were hit harder than others in terms of damage to the infrastructure. But we are working to get everyone restored...
Friday, Aug 28, 2020 - 8:19 pm
Alexandria, La. (August 28, 2020) — City of Alexandria crews have been working throughout the day to restore utility services and clean up damage caused by Hurricane Laura on Thursday. As of 5 p.m., 12,700 Alexandria customers had electric power restored, which is 50 percent of the city’s approximately 25,000 electric customers. Crews prioritized getting electricity restored to the city water pumps, medical centers, hotels, and commercial businesses while also energizing some residential customers today. Crews are working to restore all areas as quickly as possible. In neighborhoods where the...
Friday, Aug 28, 2020 - 12:49 pm
Alexandria, La. (August 28, 2020) — As residents cleanup damage caused by Hurricane Laura, the City of Alexandria has contracted with a firm to collect tree debris starting next week. City of Alexandria Urban Forester Darren Green said residents need to separate tree debris from other types of debris. “For example, if someone has a pile of limbs and then they throw a damaged fence panel on top, that won’t get picked up,” Green said. “It has to be a pile of just tree debris, no other items. If they have construction debris, like shingles and fence pieces, that needs to be put in a separate...
Thursday, Aug 27, 2020 - 7:39 pm
Alexandria, La. (August 27, 2020) — Hurricane Laura, which was a 150-mph Category 4 major hurricane at landfall near Cameron in Southwest Louisiana, was still packing 100 mph sustained winds as the storm passed west of Alexandria Thursday morning. As a result, Alexandria received sustained tropical storm force winds around 50 mph and gusts as high as 85 mph that caused widespread wind damage and knocked out power citywide. “We knew this storm had the potential to cause a lot of damage, and it certainly did that,” said Alexandria Mayor Jeffrey W. Hall. “While we had some brief issues with high...
Wednesday, Aug 26, 2020 - 1:12 pm
Alexandria, La. (August 26, 2020) — As Hurricane Laura approaches an anticipated landfall overnight in southwest Louisiana along the Texas and Louisiana border the City of Alexandria announces the following schedule of closures:ATRANS bus service will stop at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday). There will be no bus service Thursday. Service will resume Friday if possible. Watch for further announcements.Sandbag distribution will end at 3 p.m. today at the Consolidated City Compound. Self service locations will remain open but unstaffed.City offices will close at 3 p.m. today and will be closed Thursday...
Sunday, Aug 23, 2020 - 3:51 pm
Alexandria, La. (August 23, 2020) — Workers with the City of Alexandria continue to actively prepare for the possibility of high winds and heavy rain this week from two potential hurricanes, Tropical Storm Marco, which is currently forecast to move through the Alexandria area Monday night and Tuesday, and Tropical Storm Laura, which could impact the area Thursday. National Weather Service forecasts indicate Alexandria could get 3-6 inches of rain from Tropical Storm Marco Monday night and Tuesday. The path of Tropical Storm Laura continues to shift, but preliminary estimates are around 8...
Friday, Aug 21, 2020 - 5:02 pm
Alexandria, La. (August 21, 2020) — Workers with the City of Alexandria are actively preparing for the possibility of high winds and heavy rain next week from a potential Tropical Storm, which would be named Marco, currently projected to make landfall in the vicinity of the Texas-Louisiana border Tuesday. National Weather Service forecasts indicate Alexandria could get heavy rain from the storm Tuesday and Wednesday as well as wind gusts of more than 40 miles per hour, with wind activity expected to start increasing Monday night. In preparation, city workers are working to clear storm drains...
Monday, Aug 17, 2020 - 2:51 pm
Study designed to encourage more diversification in awarding of City contracts Alexandria, La. (August 17, 2020) — Starting this week, Customer Research International (CRI) will be calling Alexandria businesses on behalf of Keen Independent Research, a national economic consulting firm, to gather data about marketplace conditions and to identify any disparities there may be with City of Alexandria contracting for minority- and women-owned firms and other small businesses in the local market. “As I mentioned in my State of the Community update last week, one of the priorities of my...
Friday, Jul 31, 2020 - 4:39 pm
Alexandria, La. (July 31, 2020) — The City of Alexandria will host a drive-thru Back 2 School Supply Giveaway from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, in the Alexander Fulton Mini Park in downtown Alexandria, which is the parking lot across from City Hall between Second and Third Streets. Traditionally the City hosts an annual indoor Back to School Bash, but in light of social distancing guidelines related to COVID-19 the City will host an outdoor drive-thru event. The supply giveaway is for children in grades K-12 and the children receiving supplies must be in the car at the event. Drivers...