Louisiana Gov. John Bell Edwards said Sunday that an 86-year-old man was killed when a fire broke out while he was refueling a generator in a shed in St. Martin’s Park. A 70-year-old woman in Iberia Parish died in a fire caused by a natural gas leak caused by hurricane damage, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
Meanwhile, a large number of residents living in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi woke up in the dark on Monday morning after the delta landed in Louisiana as a Class 2 hurricane.
The hurricane system reported 10 tornadoes from the Gulf Coast to Carolinas. At least two tornadoes hit two people in northern and central Georgia on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said 42 homes in the state were damaged by the delta and the tornado came down in Franklin County.
On Monday, gusts of wind and rain hit the east-east and mid-Atlantic in the vestiges of the delta.
The train derailed after heavy delta rains
One of the Georgia tornadoes was EF1, which struck 35 miles east of Atlanta, near Queenston, and had winds of between 87 and 90 miles per hour, injuring two people, according to the National Weather Service. The city’s Emergency Management Director, Jodi Nola, told CNN it damaged the homeless shelter, displacing 30 people.
Another was an EF0 that struck Pike County, about 51 miles south of Atlanta.
Up to 6 inches of rain could be seen in northeastern Georgia and the western part of Virginia and Carolinas, putting the region at risk of flooding, the weather service said. Central Appalachian and southern New Jersey could also get wet, forecasters said.
Still recovering from Laura, Lake Charles struck again
“Even if it wasn’t as powerful as Hurricane Laura, it was still very big,” Edwards said Saturday. “Obviously, this was a very serious, very large and powerful storm that caused significant damage.”
Edwards tweeted that Delta has left a trail of “hazards such as flooded roads, down power lines and displaced wildlife” across the state. He urged residents to be vigilant.
Edwards said Sunday that most of the roads and bridges were closed and traffic lights were turned off at many intersections.
The mayor said the city of Ta did, 000 is recovering from Laura’s 1.0-mile wind in August and will now have to deal with double hurricanes of wind and flood damage, the mayor said, adding that Delta forced more residents to evacuate than Laura. Was.
People fled to the Delta as the highways outside Lake Charles flooded, and about 7,000 residents who had hit the Delta were still displaced from Laura, he said.
“We’re already taking the pieces, but we have a long way to go. There are a lot of houses damaged by Laura, and now they’re adding to the humiliation of the injury,” the governor said Saturday.
Edwards said more than 9,000 people are still in shelters in the state, but the vast majority – 8,230 – have been evacuated by Hurricane Laura.
In Texas, a utility company said it could take up to a week for customers on the state’s southeastern border to restore power.
CNN’s Melissa Alonso, Haley Brink, Michael Guy, K. Jones, Jean Norman, Ray Sanchez, Alta Spells and Jut Sutto contributed to the report.
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