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Hurricane Laura: Storm approaching US ‘potentially catastrophic’

Hurricane Laura: Storm approaching US ‘potentially catastrophic’
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People board a bus during evacuations in Lake Charles, LouisianaImage copyright EPA
Image caption More than half a million people are being told to get out of the path of Hurricane Laura

Hurricane Laura is expected to cause a catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash floods as it hits the US, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) says.

Laura is currently a Category 3 storm and is due to strengthen to Category 4 before reaching Texas and Louisiana later on Wednesday.

The NHC warned local residents to “rush” to complete preparations.

Half a million have been told to leave. Laura and another storm Marco earlier hit the Caribbean killing 24.

Marco has already struck Louisiana, bringing strong winds and heavy rain on Monday.

Initially it was feared that both storms would hit Louisiana as hurricanes with 48 hours of each other – an unprecedented event – but Marco was downgraded to a tropical storm.

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Media captionHurricane Laura approaches Texas

Laura, on the other hand, has strengthened rapidly to a Category 3, gaining 70% in power in just 24 hours.

  • Hurricanes: A guide to the world’s deadliest storms

Evacuations are complicated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Texas Governor Greg Abbott urged families who could afford it to take refuge in hotels and motels to be distanced from others.

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What can we expect from Hurricane Laura?

Early on Wednesday the NHC said satellite images had shown that Laura had undergone a remarkable intensification to become a “formidable hurricane”.

In a series of tweets, it said Laura was expected to bring “life-threatening hazards” and an “unsurvivable storm surge” to parts of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

Well-built homes could incur major damage, trees could be snapped or uprooted and electricity and water would be unavailable for days or even weeks, it said.

“Hurricane force winds and widespread damaging wind gusts will also spread well inland into portions of eastern Texas and western Louisiana early Thursday,” the NHC added.

Skip Twitter post by @NHC_Atlantic


Unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage from Sea Rim State Park, Texas, to Intracoastal City, Louisiana, including Calcasieu and Sabine Lakes. This surge could penetrate up to 30 miles inland from the immediate coastline. #Laura pic.twitter.com/bV4jzT3Chd

— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 26, 2020

End of Twitter post by @NHC_Atlantic

The hurricane currently has maximum sustained winds of 125mph (201km/h). It could reach 145mph in the next few hours, with gusts of 170mph.

It is expected to reach landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border shortly after midnight local time on Thursday (05:00 GMT).

It is also expected to generate tornadoes over Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi on Wednesday night.

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Image caption A man boards up a Louisiana store as the state braces itself for Hurricane Laura

More than 385,000 residents have been ordered to leave the Texas cities of Beaumont, Galveston and Port Arthur, while an additional 200,000 were told to evacuate Calcasieu Parish in south-western Louisiana.

Port Arthur, Texas, is home to the nation’s largest oil refinery, and workers have been taken off at least 281 offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, officials said on Monday.

What happened in the Caribbean?

Marco and Laura brought high winds and rough seas to the Caribbean, leaving at least 24 people dead, including a baby and an eight-year-old child in Haiti.

Heavy rains have also battered parts of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and the US territory of Puerto Rico. President Trump declared a state of disaster in the territory on Saturday.

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Image caption Laura has brought rough seas and high winds to the Caribbean, including here in Havana, Cuba

In Cuba, authorities have evacuated at least 160,000 people from several coastal regions, while thousands have been evacuated in the Dominican Republic.

In Jamaica, there were reports of landslides and flooded roads.

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