A submerged car is pictured on a flooded street after Hurricane Delta in Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S., October 10, 2020. REUTERS/Kathleen Flynn
The storm brought local flooding of streets and riverbanks after closely tracking the path of destruction left by more powerful Hurricane Laura, which came ashore in late August with 150-mph winds. Laura damaged tens of thousands of homes, leaving roofs across the region dotted with protective blue tarpaulins and more than 6,000 people living temporarily in hotels.Delta spared many of the rooftop tarps that were still up, but it flooded some streets and littered others with downed trees and branches street.
By mid-morning on Saturday, some 575,000 customers across Louisiana were without power, down from nearly 600,000, according to PowerOutage.US, which tracks disruptions across the United States. As Delta made its way over the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, energy companies cut back U.S. oil production by about 92%, or 1.7 million barrels per day, the most since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 100 offshore platforms and hobbled output for months.
Anyone on the gulf knows the heartbreak one feels when a hurricane or tornado tries to destroy your life. It’s a gut feeling and it resonates and leaves you paralyzed as where to begin to start over.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
MNLovesLakeCharles and I'm overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from BPPress authors and ManhattanToy who gave me thousands of books and toys to give away to libraries and children who lost everything during HurricaneLaura and now HurricaneDelta.
Soggy mess - a nice professional journalistic term ... and a new band name 😃👍