Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the coastal counties that braced for the worst were largely spared as he toured damaged areas in his state in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura
Laura’s powerful gusts uprooted trees - and four people were crushed to death in separate incidents of trees falling on homes. The state’s department of health said late Thursday that there were two more fatalities attributed to the hurricane - a man who drowned while aboard a sinking boat and a man who had carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a generator in his home.
“This was the most powerful storm to ever make landfall in Louisiana,” Governor John Bel Edwards told a news conference. “It’s continuing to cause damage and life-threatening conditions.”Laura largely misses U.S. cotton, sugar fields; rains to skip dry Midwest grain beltLaura’s maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour upon landfall easily bested Hurricane Katrina, which sparked deadly levee breaches in New Orleans in 2005, and arrived with wind speeds of 125 mph.
Homes lie destroyed and immersed in water in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura near Hackberry, Louisiana, U.S., August 27, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif National Guard troops cleared debris from roads in Lake Charles on Thursday afternoon. There were downed power lines in streets around the city, and the winds tipped a few semi-trucks onto their sides.
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