Hurricane Laura rips through Louisiana, destroying buildings in towns across the southwestern corner of the US state and killing at least four people
Residents of Lake Charles heard Laura's winds howling and the sound of breaking glass as the storm passed through the city of 78,000 with winds of 85 miles per hour and gusts up to 128 mph in the hour after landfall.There were downed powerlines in streets around the city, and the winds tipped a few semi-trucks onto their sides.
Lake Charles resident Borden Wilson, a 33-year-old pediatrician, was anxiously anticipating his return home after evacuating to Minden, Louisiana.I didn't think to do that. This is the first hurricane I've experienced. I just hope my house is fine," he said in a telephone interview. Rev Karl Smith carefully inspected the damage done to buildings around his First Pentecostal Church. He rode out the storm in the cellar of his house – and had to cut through trees so that he and his wife could get out.Emergency personnel arrive to survey the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in Sulphur, Louisiana, US, on August 27, 2020.
Besides threatening life, the storm slammed the heart of the US oil industry, forcing oil rigs and refineries to shut down production.
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