LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana: Hurricane Laura made landfall in the southern US state of Louisiana on Thursday (Aug 27) and the monster Category 4 storm ...
LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana: Hurricane Laura made landfall in the southern US state of Louisiana on Thursday and the monster Category 4 storm prompted warnings of"unsurvivable" ocean surges and evacuation orders for hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents.
Earlier the NHC warned Laura could pummel the Louisiana and Texas coasts with an"unsurvivable storm surge" of up to 6m, and that tornadoes could form at the southern edges of the weather system.Between 13cm and 26cm of rain was expected on parts of the Gulf Coast between Wednesday and Friday.Storm surges could penetrate up to 64km inland along parts of the coast, and peak surge coupled with high tide could see water as high as 4.5m to 6m above normal levels, it said.
Among the cities potentially in the path of the eye of the storm and under mandatory evacuation orders are Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, which suffered heavy damage from Hurricane Harvey three years ago.COVID-19 loomed over preparations, with Angela Jouett, director of evacuation operations in Lake Charles, saying authorities were ensuring that evacuees use hand sanitiser, get their temperatures taken and maintain a distance of 1.8m.
"I'm a little nervous but then I'm also like, 'Okay, I know I'm going to be safe inside my apartment," Matthew Jones, 28, a security guard, told AFP.Further east, in Port Arthur, a town near the border with Louisiana, Jannette Zinos was packing up her family to evacuate.Another evacuee in Lake Charles, Patricia Como, said other family members had stayed behind but she was"not going to take a chance".
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