So far, so good.
Hurricane Isaac side-stepped the Pine Belt as it flirted with landfall along the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, delivering mainly a glancing blow of spitting rain and sighing winds.
“We’ve been blessed so far,” Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree said Wednesday morning during a briefing at the Forrest County Emergency Management Agency command center.
“The roads are open, the wind’s down and the rain’s been steady and not those drastic downfalls.”
Hattiesburg American
8/29/12
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