"This Is Insane" - Hurricane Laura Makes Landfall As "Extremely Dangerous" Category 4 Storm
Tyler Durden
Thu, 08/27/2020 - 07:13
The 'extremely dangerous' Hurricane Laura made landfall early Thursday morning as a Category 4 near Cameron, Louisiana, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. The eye of the storm pushed inland across southwestern Louisiana around 3:00 ET, with "catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds, and flash flooding," the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.Â
Around 0500ET, the NHC downgraded Laura to a Category 3 storm with winds up to 120 mph. The storm is moving northward through Louisiana as an "unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves" batters the region.Â
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It's too early to speculate the total dollar amount of damage caused by Laura. Still, with floodwaters expected to penetrate 40 miles inland and take "several days" to recede, it could be in the billions of dollars, like other major storms to hammer the region in recent years.
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"Hurricane-force winds and widespread damaging wind gusts will continue to spread well inland into portions of extreme eastern Texas and western Louisiana through the day," NHC said.
A 132 mile per hour wind gust was recorded at the Lake Charles Regional Airport within Hurricane #Laura's northeastern eye wall. pic.twitter.com/oxxaggURyt
â Andrew Gorton WTOC (@AndrewGortonWx) August 27, 2020
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