In Louisiana, a stormy hurricane has wreaked havoc. Hurricane Delta crashed onshore Friday in southwestern Louisiana as a Category 2 storm, complicating misery along a path of destruction left by Hurricane Laura only six weeks earlier. The center of the hurricane made landfall about 6 p.m. near the town of Creole with top winds of 100 mph (155 kph), launching a storm wave that could reach up to 11 feet (3.4 meters), the National Hurricane Center stated. As the 10th named storm to strike the continental US this year, Delta’s arrival snapped a century-old record.
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People in south Louisiana steeled themselves as Delta delivered driving rain, powerful winds and rising water to a part of the state still recovering from a deadly catastrophic hurricane six weeks ago. Power outages in Louisiana and neighboring Texas soared past 203,000 homes and businesses Friday shortly after the storm came ashore, according to the tracking website PowerOutage.us. The Hurricane Center announced that wind gusts in Lake Arthur, Louisiana, reached 96 mph (154 kph) as Delta made landfall. The storm surge reached 8 feet (2.4 meters) east of Cameron, a sparely populated coastal community devastated by 2005′s Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Ike in 2008.
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In the city of Lake Charles, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) inland from where Delta made landfall, rain pelted the tarp-covered roofs of buildings that Hurricane Laura battered when it barreled through in late August and killed at least 27 people in the state. Delta was the 25th named storm of an unprecedented Atlantic hurricane season and became the first Greek-alphabet-named hurricane to hit the continental US As the 10th named storm to hit the continental US this year, it surpassed a record set in 1916, according to Colorado State University researcher Phil Klotzbach.
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