Louisiana's governor cautions residents to be realistic about “the long road ahead of us” to recover from Hurricane Laura. More than 230,000 utility customers remain without power six days after the storm made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane.
Flooding surrounds damaged homes Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, in Cameron, La., after Hurricane Laura moved through the area Thursday.
The hurricane was blamed Wednesday for two more deaths in Louisiana, increasing the storm’s U.S. death toll to 21. That means there could be no operating grocery stores, gas stations or pharmacies for people wanting to go back to their communities. Twenty-one deaths in Louisiana and Texas have been attributed to the storm. Seventeen of those were in Louisiana, including two in Beauregard Parish added to the list Wednesday. Louisiana’s state Health Department said a 36-year-old man and a woman in her 80s died of heat-related illnesses tied to the storm. No further details were immediately provided.
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