Hurricane Delta could bring “life-threatening” storm surge to Gulf Coast
Hurricane Delta, now a Category 3 storm, is growing more powerful and threatening to hit Louisiana as early as Friday afternoon. Residents prepared by filling sandbags and boarding up windows for the sixth time in the last several months. Evacuations were underway.
On Wednesday, the hurricane barreled through the Mexican resort areas of Cozumel and Cancun, where it caused some streets to collapse and knocked out power to 266,000 homes and businesses.
“It is very clear that Southwest Louisiana is going to get more of a punch from this than we would like to see, for sure, because we’re still trying to recover from Hurricane Laura,” Governor John Bel Edwards said Thursday.