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Cyclone Delta reached the US state of Louisiana with winds of 150 km / h. 200,000 homes are without electricity.
Hurricane Delta hit the coast of the US state of Louisiana with winds of a good 150 kilometers per hour. The storm brought heavy rains, authorities warned of the storm surge. More than 200,000 homes were without electricity, according to reports from US television stations.
The hurricane previously weakened from level three to level two over the Gulf of Mexico, and forecasters expected it to lose its strength quickly on its way through Louisiana.
Saturday night, however, was still unclear. Authorities noted, among other things, that the wind could spin some of the debris from the previous Hurricane Laura.
Delta follows Laura
Delta landed near Creole on Friday night. Laura, a level four hurricane, had struck only a dozen miles away six weeks ago. The damage to many houses has yet to be repaired. Television images showed that many buildings have blue tarps instead of solid roofs.
About 10,000 people have still lived in hotels since then, as Governor John Bel Edwards said on Friday. In view of the corona crisis, emergency shelters should only be used briefly during evacuations. After that, people would quickly spread out to more hotel rooms, Edwards said.
Fast storm
Authorities expected the storm surge to reach three meters in height. Delta is moving relatively fast at a speed of a good 20 kilometers per hour. It is the fourth storm to hit the Louisiana coast this year. Laura, the strongest of them, killed 30 people, Governor Edwards said Friday.
In this year’s Atlantic cyclone season, which lasts from June to November, so many strong storms have already formed that the 21 names provided in alphabetical order have been exhausted. Therefore, meteorologists used the Greek alphabet, which last occurred in 2005.
