ET advisory that "life-threatening storm surge with large and destructive waves" will continue Thursday morning within a Storm Surge Warning area that spans from High Island, Texas, to the mouth of Mississippi in Louisiana. The National Hurricane Center said in its 7 a.m. The hurricane's top wind speed of 150 mph put it among the most powerful on record in the U.S. The storm barreled over Lake Charles, Louisiana, an industrial and casino city of 80,000 people.Įxtensive property damage has been reported a floating casino that came unmoored hit a bridge.Īcting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Trump that the situation on the ground "is fluid and challenging," but the Federal Emergency Management Agency is responding. The bulk of the damage was reported in Louisiana. Laura slammed the Gulf Coast early Thursday and roared through Louisiana. Trump said he would visit Texas and Louisiana on Saturday or Sunday to survey the destruction caused by Laura, which Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said has killed at least four people. A total of 3,000 prison inmates in Texas were evacuated to safer. President Trump says he will visit the Gulf Coast this weekend to tour damage from one of the fiercest hurricanes to hit the U.S. October 4, 2002: Category 4 hurricane 1-minute. President Trump and Vice President Pence listen during a Hurricane Laura briefing at FEMA headquarters on Thursday, August 27, 2020, in Washington. The power utility is asking customers in the western area north of Houston to voluntarily curtail their power usage to help the infrastructure, the station reported.ĬBS affiliate KFDM said energy company Entergy has begun periodic power outages to prevent "a more extensive, prolonged power outage that could severely affect the reliability of the power grid." The outages are the result of "extensive damage" caused by the storm, the company said. Aftermath The Red Cross provided food and shelter to 63,000 people in the hurricanes wake, costing about. An official with the region's power utility told the station that Laura damaged key transmission lines, conductors and some transmission towers that handle bringing power from the east. Alicia weakened as it accelerated northwest into the Texas interior, with the hurricanes center passing just west of Downtown Houston on the morning of August 18 as a Category 1 hurricane. Louisiana is experiencing the worst of the outages with almost 600,000 people without electricity.ĬBS affiliate KHOU-TV said brownouts have hit Montgomery County as well as Chambers, Liberty and Walker counties. ET, more than 840,000 people in Louisiana and Texas remained without power in Hurricane Laura's aftermath, according to data from.
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