Four fatalities recorded in Louisiana, including a 14-year-old girl who died after a tree fell on her home
Hurricane Laura, the most powerful hurricane to strike the US this year, was moving across Louisiana on a northerly path on Thursday morning, still at hurricane strength 170 miles inland after threatening an “unsurvivable storm surge” on the coast and tropical force weather as far as Tennessee.
The storm slammed into western Louisiana overnight with gusts of up to 150mph and will cause “catastrophic conditions” as it progresses, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Continue reading…Four fatalities recorded in Louisiana, including a 14-year-old girl who died after a tree fell on her homeHurricane Laura – follow live updatesHurricane Laura, the most powerful hurricane to strike the US this year, was moving across Louisiana on a northerly path on Thursday morning, still at hurricane strength 170 miles inland after threatening an “unsurvivable storm surge” on the coast and tropical force weather as far as Tennessee.The storm slammed into western Louisiana overnight with gusts of up to 150mph and will cause “catastrophic conditions” as it progresses, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Continue reading…