![]() ![]() The electricity was out and Palermo said she could see pieces of metal coming off the roof of a 100-year-old building across the street. “I probably don’t have a shingle left on the top of this hotel,” owner Roberta Palermo said as the winds gusted outside. In Lake Arthur, Delta’s winds peeled shingles off the roof of L’Banca Albergo, an eight-room boutique hotel in what used to be a bank. I’m not worried about nothing, just praying that everything goes well.”Įrnest Jack stands near his home, which was hit by Hurricane Laura ahead of Hurricane Delta, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on 9 October. “It’s raining real hard it’s flooding the wind is strong,” Jack said Friday night. His windows were covered to protect against flying debris. Jack said a tarp covering roof damage caused by Laura hadn’t blown off. Water leaked through the ceiling of Ernest Jack’s bedroom in Lake Charles as he tried to sleep through the storm. “Worms! My wife sees that she’s going to cry.” Pulling them back upon his return, he saw worms and spiders scurrying about inside. Before evacuating, he had put sandbags and plastic in the doorway to keep water out of his one-story brick house. The wind wasn’t the source of King’s distress following Delta. Another with a gutted house who had already replaced the roof. Looking around the neighborhood, he ticked off the damage that Laura had done. It rose up close to the furniture,” King said. “I was hoping and praying that it didn’t get into the house, but it did. With the water knee-deep along Legion Street in Lake Charles, resident Patrick King had to wade through the water to get to his home after he returned Saturday from spending the night in Beaumont, Texas. Mississippi also got its fair share of rain overnight. By Saturday morning, it dwindled to a tropical storm with 45mph (75km/h) winds, but storm surge and flash floods continued to pose dangers across much of south-western Louisiana and parts of neighboring Texas. Forecasters warned that heavy rain, ocean water from the storm surge and flash floods continued to pose dangers from parts of Texas to Mississippi.ĭelta hit as a category 2 hurricane, with top winds of 100mph (155km/h) before rapidly weakening over land. Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPAĭelta rapidly weakened once it moved onto land, and had slowed into a tropical depression Saturday morning. A funeral home owner looks over damage to his business in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on 10 October. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |