Lafourche Parish

New Orleans had a specific evacuation plan that called for the southernmost parishes to leave first.

These, Lafourche, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, and St. Charles, were notified to start evacuations on Saturday at 9:00 AM by their parish leaders.

That afternoon, sheriff's deputies were managing the intersections, and traffic lights were turned off to expedite traffic out of town.

By Sunday, deputies were going door to door to tell anyone left to leave.

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But, um, she says that she believes her partner, Ken Urker, died of a drug overdose after he was found unresponsive in his Raceland home on the thir- on his 34th birthday as the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office continues a death investigation.

Deputies were called to a residence on Double H Drive around 6:15 on Thursday, October the 1st, and found Urker's body.

This is according to The Advocate.

A sheriff's office spokesperson confirmed an active death investigation is underway, underway.

Authorities have not publicly released a cause of death.

Page, uh, Six, citing the Lafourche Parish, uh, public information officer, reported that Urker was found dead on arrival, that deputies did locate a syringe and a handgun on the nightstand next to the bed, and that investigators found no evidence of foul play while the death investigation continues.

Blanchard d- Blanchard described him as the father of their daughter Aurora and the love of her life.

As I understand it, Newell, we own a little small parcel in St. James Parish.

We own a little small partial, parcel in Jefferson Parish, but we own tens of thousands of acres in Lafourche, and that's where Port Fourchon sits.

And for people who don't know, Port Fourchon is a major facility for, um, oil and gas, um, uh, refining and for, uh, re- releasing that throughout the, the entire country and elsewhere.

So it is, it is not just like, "Oh, we, we won some land and this is nice." It is, it is a significant amount of land, tens of thousands of acres that has highly valuable mineral leases on it.

As I understand it, Newell, we own a little small parcel in St. James Parish.

We own a little small partial, parcel in Jefferson Parish, but we own tens of thousands of acres in Lafourche, and that's where Port Fourchon sits.

And for people who don't know, Port Fourchon is a major facility for, um, oil and gas, um, uh, refining and for, uh, re- releasing that throughout the, the entire country and elsewhere.

So it is, it is not just like, "Oh, we, we won some land, and this is nice." It is, it is a significant amount of land, tens of thousands of acres that has highly valuable mineral leases on it.

And also because of coastal erosion, we've actually lost acreage As I understand it, Newell, we own a little small parcel in St. James Parish.

We own a little small partial, parcel in Jefferson Parish, but we own tens of thousands of acres in Lafourche, and that's where Port Fourchon sits.

And for people who don't know, Port Fourchon is a major facility for, um, oil and gas, um, uh, refining and for, uh, r- releasing that throughout the, the entire country and elsewhere.

So it is, it is not just like, "Oh, we, we won some land and this is nice." It is, it is a significant amount of land, tens of thousands of acres, that has highly valuable mineral leases on it.