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The Amite City, Louisiana-based owner of a hurricane recovery service expects to put in 18-hour days for the next two weeks after Francine passed over the area, leaving a trail of destruction.
Hurricane Katrina making landfall on Louisiana. July 5, 2005 – Hurricane Cindy brought wind gusts of 70 mph (110 km/h) to New Orleans, downing many trees. Rainfall also left scattered street flooding. With thousands losing electrical power, the city experienced its worst blackout since Hurricane Betsy in 1965, only to be trumped by Hurricane ...
A fallen tree blocks an intersection on September 11, 2024 in Houma, Louisiana. Hurricane Francine has been upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane and continues to make landfall along the Louisiana coast.
Francine is spreading dangerous conditions across the South Thursday after it slammed into Louisiana with ... a Category 2 hurricane late Wednesday afternoon and weakened to a tropical depression ...
Hurricane Katrina (4 C, 14 P) R. Hurricane Rita (8 P) Pages in category "Hurricanes in Louisiana" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total.
However, Cindy's winds gusted to 70 mph (110 km/h) in the city, knocking branches off trees and causing New Orleans' largest blackout since Hurricane Betsy in 1965. [21] The experience encouraged many to evacuate when the much more powerful Hurricane Katrina was heading towards the city less than two months later. [22] [23] [24]
It was also the 10th hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana since 2000. Francine is the eighth hurricane since then to make landfall at Category 2 strength or higher, according to Phil Klotzbach ...
August 29 is not a day to celebrate in Louisiana. On the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastation, Hurricane Ida brewed up its own tragedies on Sunday afternoon, drawing dangerously ...