Louisiana is dealing with the aftermath of yet another storm. Hurricane Zeta‘S eye hit Cocodrie, Louisiana as a powerful category 2 storm with winds around 110 mph. It was just one mph short of becoming a category 3. It has weakened to a tropical storm but not before ripping through New Orleans.
New Orleans, Louisiana is in the northern eyewall of Hurricane #Zeta. Here's a look at how strong this storm is. pic.twitter.com/BwOflGfczX
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) October 28, 2020
Weather.com reports several towns in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia were also impacted:
More than 2 million homes and businesses were without power across seven states as of 7 a.m., according to power outage.us. In Georgia alone, more than 1 million customers had no electricity. Louisiana was reporting more than half a million outages.
At least three people died in the storm. In Louisiana, a 55-year-old man was electrocuted by low-hanging power lines in New Orleans. In Mississippi, an Alabama man taking video of the storm in Biloxi drowned at a marina, the Sun Herald reported.
Water rushing over the first floor of the Golden Nugget Parking Garage in Biloxi. #HurricaneZeta pic.twitter.com/qV0rEPgJDh
— Hugh Keeton (@HughKeeton) October 29, 2020
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