Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana
4 years, 2 months ago

Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana

Associated Press  

— The day after Hurricane Delta blew through besieged southern Louisiana, residents started the routine again: dodging overturned cars, trudging through knee-deep water to flooded homes with ruined floors and no power, and pledging to rebuild after the storm. While Delta was a weaker storm than Category 4 Laura, it brought significantly more flooding, Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter said. “Add Laura and Delta together and it’s just absolutely unprecedented and catastrophic,” Hunter said. “It’s still dangerous out there, and we’re just going to have to start over from a few weeks ago.” The U.S. Gulf Coast is no stranger to hurricanes, and its people are resilient, Lake Charles resident Katie Prejean McGrady said. “I had just put away my daughter’s toys.” __ Associated Press contributors include Rebecca Santana in Jennings, Melinda Deslatte in Baton Rouge; Gerald Herbert in Lake Charles; Seth Borenstein in Kensington, Maryland; Alanna Durkin Richer in West Harwich, Massachusetts and Sophia Tulp in Atlanta.

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Residents in a Louisiana city devastated by 2020 hurricanes are still far from recovery
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Residents in a Louisiana city devastated by 2020 hurricanes are still far from recovery

Associated Press  

— Every other day Lois Malvo waits for her son to bring six buckets of water from a spigot in the backyard. Terra Hillman walks past a mold covered wall in her home, due to heavy damage caused by Hurricanes Laura and Delta four years ago, in Lake Charles, La., Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. Terra Hillman enters a FEMA trailer …

Hurricane Center report details $2.9 billion cost from Delta
3 years, 8 months ago

Hurricane Center report details $2.9 billion cost from Delta

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Delta, which made landfall about 11 miles from where the devastating Hurricane Laura hit a little more than a month earlier, cost $2.9 billion in the United States and was linked to six deaths in the U.S. and Mexico, according to a report from the National Hurricane Center. The report released Tuesday details the hurricane’s origins, …

2 months after hurricanes, Louisiana residents still hurting
3 years, 11 months ago

2 months after hurricanes, Louisiana residents still hurting

Associated Press  

— As southwest Louisiana recovers from the back-to-back hurricanes that hammered the region this year, signs of progress compete with lingering evidence of mass destruction. “It’s almost overwhelming by the time you get home,” she said. Aid efforts after Laura and Delta have only garnered about 25% of the volunteers and donations as other storms affecting the region, such as …

Hurricane Delta inflicts new damage on storm-weary Louisiana
4 years, 2 months ago

Hurricane Delta inflicts new damage on storm-weary Louisiana

Associated Press  

— Ripping tarps from already damaged roofs and scattering debris piled by roadsides, Hurricane Delta inflicted a new round of destruction on Louisiana as it struck communities still reeling after Hurricane Laura took a similar path just six weeks earlier. When Delta came ashore Friday as a Category 2 hurricane, almost all homes and buildings in Lake Charles still bore …

Hurricane Delta makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana
4 years, 2 months ago

Hurricane Delta makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana

Hindustan Times  

Hurricane Delta crashed onshore Friday in southwestern Louisiana as a Category 2 storm, compounding misery along a path of destruction left by Hurricane Laura only six weeks earlier. People in south Louisiana steeled themselves as Delta delivered driving rain, powerful winds and rising water to a part of the state still recovering from a deadly catastrophic hurricane six weeks ago. …

‘This is not a bad dream': New hurricane menaces Louisiana
4 years, 2 months ago

‘This is not a bad dream': New hurricane menaces Louisiana

Associated Press  

— Louisiana residents confronting the menace of a new hurricane weeks after one battered parts of the state got stark warnings Thursday to brace for winds that could turn still-uncollected debris into dangerous missiles and again knock out power to thousands. The mayor of Lakes Charles, where thousands of residents remain without shelter following the earlier hurricane, told residents that …

Hurricane Delta Weakens After Making Landfall On Southwest Louisiana Coast
4 years, 2 months ago

Hurricane Delta Weakens After Making Landfall On Southwest Louisiana Coast

NPR  

Hurricane Delta Weakens After Making Landfall On Southwest Louisiana Coast Enlarge this image toggle caption NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East Updated at 10:09 p.m. Sponsor Message "A NOAA National Weather Service water level gauge at Freshwater Canal Locks, Louisiana, recently reported storm surge inundation of over 8 feet above ground level," the agency said in its latest statement. Delta will bring …

Busy 2020 hurricane season has Louisiana bracing a 6th time
4 years, 2 months ago

Busy 2020 hurricane season has Louisiana bracing a 6th time

Associated Press  

— For the sixth time in the Atlantic hurricane season, people in Louisiana are once more fleeing the state’s barrier islands and sailing boats to safe harbor while emergency officials ramp up command centers and consider ordering evacuations. Forecasts placed most of Louisiana within Delta’s path, with the latest National Hurricane Center estimating landfall in the state on Friday. The …

Hurricane Delta lashes Mexico’s Yucatan, then heads for US
4 years, 2 months ago

Hurricane Delta lashes Mexico’s Yucatan, then heads for US

Associated Press  

CANCUN, Mexico — Hurricane Delta emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and headed toward Louisiana after making landfall just south of the Mexican resort of Cancun, toppling trees and cutting power to residents of the Yucatan peninsula’s resort-studded coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Delta weakened to a Category 1 storm during the afternoon, but …

Hurricane Delta threatens a devastated Louisiana on US Gulf Coast
4 years, 2 months ago

Hurricane Delta threatens a devastated Louisiana on US Gulf Coast

Al Jazeera  

In an unprecedented storm season, Louisiana residents are now preparing for the approach of Hurricane Delta. Louisiana residents, still recovering from the devastation of a powerful hurricane less than two months ago, braced for another hit as Hurricane Delta steamed north through the Gulf on Thursday after swiping Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. “We don’t want a hurricane to hit anywhere, but …

Hurricane Delta makes landfall in Mexico
4 years, 2 months ago

Hurricane Delta makes landfall in Mexico

Al Jazeera  

Delta is the 25th named storm of an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season. A weakened Delta hit the Yucatan Peninsula near the city of Puerto Morelos as a Category 2 storm, the National Hurricane Center said. The governors of US states Alabama and Louisiana declared states of emergency on Tuesday ahead of the storm, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey ordered all …

After Hurricane Sally, weary Alabama coast braces for Delta
4 years, 2 months ago

After Hurricane Sally, weary Alabama coast braces for Delta

Associated Press  

GULF SHORES, Ala. — Alabama beach communities that are still recovering from Hurricane Sally warned residents Tuesday to get ready for rapidly strengthening Hurricane Delta, which is forecast to hit the Gulf Coast later this week. “As residents along the Gulf Coast know all too well, these storms are unpredictable, and I strongly encourage everyone to take Hurricane Delta seriously,” …

Before and after pictures reveal the devastation wrought by Hurricane Laura
4 years, 3 months ago

Before and after pictures reveal the devastation wrought by Hurricane Laura

Daily Mail  

Hurricane Laura, one of the strongest to ever strike the U.S., killed at least six people and left 750,000 without power as it wrought billions of dollars worth of damage on its destructive path through the Gulf Coast Thursday. At least six people were killed in the US by the storm In the wake of Laura's passing, Louisiana Governor John …

Hurricane Laura Slams Louisiana, Kills Six, But Less Damage Than Forecast
4 years, 3 months ago

Hurricane Laura Slams Louisiana, Kills Six, But Less Damage Than Forecast

News 18  

Hurricane Laura tore through Louisiana on Thursday, killing six people and flattening buildings across a wide swatch of the state before moving into Arkansas with heavy rains. “It’s continuing to cause damage and life-threatening conditions.” Laura’s maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour upon landfall easily bested Hurricane Katrina, which sparked deadly levee breaches in New Orleans in 2005, …

Hurricane Laura makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana near Texas
4 years, 3 months ago

Hurricane Laura makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana near Texas

Hindustan Times  

Hurricane Laura made landfall in southwestern Louisiana as a ferocious Category 4 monster with 150 mph winds early Thursday, swamping a low-lying coast with ocean water that forecasters said could be 20 feet deep and unsurvivable. Waves crash ashore as outer bands from Hurricane Laura begin to hit the coast The National Hurricane Center said the storm, which intensified rapidly …

Hurricane Laura moves toward landfall in southwestern Louisiana
4 years, 3 months ago

Hurricane Laura moves toward landfall in southwestern Louisiana

Hindustan Times  

Laura roared toward landfall in southwestern Louisiana near the Texas border as a menacing Category 4 hurricane late Wednesday, pushing ocean water topped with waves on to a low-lying coast that forecasters said would be inundated with “unsurvivable” storm surge as much as 20 feet deep. Hurricane-force winds extending 60 miles from the storm’s center neared the coast, forecasters said, …

Louisiana coastline: Hurricane Laura kills 6 and leaves widespread wind damage
4 years, 3 months ago

Louisiana coastline: Hurricane Laura kills 6 and leaves widespread wind damage

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Is your power out or device’s battery charge low? Joe Raedle/Getty Images A man walks through a debris-filled hallway on the second floor of a Lake Charles church that lost its roof on August 27. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Latasha Myles and Howard Anderson stand in their Lake Charles living room, which is where they were sitting when the …

This is what it looks like in Lake Charles, Louisiana, after Hurricane Laura hit
4 years, 3 months ago

This is what it looks like in Lake Charles, Louisiana, after Hurricane Laura hit

CNN  

CNN — Areas along the Louisiana-Texas border were hit hard overnight by Hurricane Laura, one of the strongest storms to ever hit the region. Louisiana Downed power lines and debris litter a street in Lake Charles on Thursday morning after Hurricane Laura tore through the area. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Reginald Duhon prepares to work at his home in Lake Charles …

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