Hurricane Laura has been wreaking havoc in the United States with power cuts and flash floods bringing normal lives of half a million houses to a standstill. Louisiana has suffered the highest due to this hurricane.
Although the storm has not reached grave levels, it is still life-threatening. Meteorologists predict that this has the potential to spread up to 65 kilometres inland. It has struck the Gulf Coast of the United States at 240 kilometres per hour and is the biggest to hit that coast so far. Due to this, over half a million residents in the Louisiana and Texas States have been asked to relocate.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said early on Thursday: “We’ve had daylight now for a couple of hours. It appears there is more structural damage from the wind and a little less flood damage than we anticipated.” He confirmed the first fatality in his state, adding: “I suspect that won’t be the last, although I pray that we don’t have more.”
Before Laura and another storm, Marco, had earlier swept across the Caribbean, killing 24 people. Hurricane Laura made landfall shortly after midnight on Wednesday evening and it is feared that Laura could spawn tornadoes.