Hotels in Shreveport-Bossier are booked through the weekend, and some through early next week, as Hurricane Ike nears landfall on the southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana coasts.
The storm, which is expected to reach Category 3 strength, will hit sometime late Friday or early Saturday. Shelters in Shreveport-Bossier also have been activated and include the state-operated former Sam’s Club facility at 8810 Jewella Ave. for evacuated from Calcasieu Parish. Those with animals may contact the Caddo Parish Animal Shelter at 1500 Monty St. assistance (318-226-6624).
The Red Cross activated a shelter for evacuees at Southern University-Shreveport Friday morning.
Bossier Animal Control Shelter on Old Shed Road in Bossier City has opened and will only shelter pets whose owners have critical transportation needs. Reports claiming the Bossier Animal Control Shelter is being used as anything but a shelter for pets with critical transportation needs are false.
According to emergency.louisiana.gov website, the following parishes have issued mandatory or voluntary evacuations for all or parts of parishes ahead of Hurricane Ike:
Calcasieu Parish - Mandatory Evacuation for residents in travel trailers, mobile homes, and low-lying areas, as well as home-bound, special needs residents.
Cameron Parish - Mandatory Evacuation for entire parish.
Iberia Parish - Voluntary Evacuation for low-lying areas.
Jefferson Parish - Mandatory Evacuation of Grand Isle.
Jefferson Davis Parish - Voluntary Evacuation for residents with special needs.
Lafourche Parish - Mandatory Evacuation for all areas south of the Leon Theriot Floodgates in Golden Meadow and the community of Pointe-Aux-Chenes.
Livingston Parish - Voluntary Evacuation of southern and eastern portions of parish.
Plaquemines Parish - Voluntary Evacuation of entire parish.
St. Bernard Parish -Mandatory Evacuation of anyone not inside the hurricane protection levee.
St. Mary Parish - Voluntary Evacuation south of the Intercoastal and in Franklin south of the railroad track. In Baldwin, the voluntary evacuation extends to residents of mobile homes and travel trailers.
St. Martin Parish - Voluntary Evacuationin Bell River and Stevensville for low-lying and mobile home/travel trailers.
Terrebonne Parish - Voluntary Evacuation of southern portion of parish.
Vermilion Parish - Mandatory Evacuation for Vermilion Parish below LA Highway 14 to include all of Erath and Delcambre and Medical Special Needs patients south of LA Highway 14 and on the west side of the parish from the Meridian Line Road to the Cameron and Jeff Davis parish lines.
(Former) Sam's Club – State operated center
8810 Jewella Ave.
Shreveport, LA 71108
Red Cross
4221 Linwood Ave.
Shreveport, LA 71108 (318) 865-9545