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According to the website Poweroutage.us, about 600,000 customers in the state were without power on Saturday and there were about 100,000 outages in Texas and Mississippi.
“Delta” had previously weakened from hurricane level three to two over the Gulf of Mexico and was downgraded to a tropical storm on Saturday. Meteorologists calculated that it would quickly lose more strength on its way through Louisiana. Authorities had noted, however, that the wind could swirl around some of the debris from the previous hurricane “Laura” that was still lying around. “Delta” landed on Friday night (local time) near the town of Creole.
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“Laura”, a level four hurricane, had swept across the country just a few dozen kilometers away six weeks ago. The damage has not yet been repaired in many houses. Television images showed that many buildings have blue tarps instead of solid roofs. About 10,000 people are still staying in hotels, as Governor John Bel Edwards said Friday. Delta is the fourth storm to hit the Louisiana coast this year. “Laura,” the strongest of them, killed 30 people, as 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 that were destined for them in alphabetical order have been exhausted. Therefore, meteorologists turned to the Greek alphabet, which was necessary for the last time in 2005.
