Louisiana residents gear up for abnormally active hurricane season
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As the United States Coast Guard continues searching for missing people after a commercial ship capsized Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico due to a thunderstorm, Louisiana residents are preparing for more upcoming storms in a hurricane season forecasted to be more active than usual.
"This is going to be a rough summer," Adrienne Webber, 57, who is originally from southern Louisiana, told CBS News. "Make sure you're prepared." According to a study published Thursday by the Weather Company, 18 different named storms — including eight hurricanes and three major hurricanes — are predicted to hit the Atlantic Basin during this hurricane season, which officially runs between June 1 and November 30. This projection, while shy of last year's record of 30 named storms, is above the 30-year average.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.