Tropical Storm Marco is expected to intensify into a hurricane on Sunday before it is projected to hit Louisiana – while Tropical Storm Laura is set to hit the same road, as well as a hurricane.
Hurricane warnings were issued from Morgan City, Louisiana to the mouth of the Pearl River when the two tropical storms moved to the Gulf Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The projected tracks showed that both storms will be in the Gulf together on Monday, with Marco reaching the coast of Louisiana sometime in the afternoon and Laura making a landfall on Wednesday.
Marco is currently moving north at 13 mph 395 miles southeast of the Mississippi River estuary.
Meanwhile, on Sunday morning, Laura lay about 95 miles east of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph.
The storm cut down trees and knocked out more than 200,000 people in Puerto Rico on Saturday – leaving 100,000 people without water in the neighboring Dominican Republic.
It also hit Haiti and was predicted to move across Cuba on Sunday evening or Monday.
If the storms coincide, it would be the first time two hurricanes have appeared in the Gulf of Mexico for at least a century at a time.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards asked President Donald Trump for a federal emergency declaration ahead of the possible double whammy.
“The cumulative impact of these storms will likely affect much of Louisiana for tropical storm / hurricane power effects for a much longer period than it would with a single hurricane,” he wrote.
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