Nearly 700,000 people are estimated to be without power across Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas Friday, as leaders in some communities battered by Hurricane Laura are warning it could take weeks for life to return to anything resembling normalcy.
The developments came as President Trump is planning to head to the Gulf Coast this weekend to survey the damage inflicted by Laura, which made landfall early Thursday with top winds of 150 mph -- putting it among the strongest systems on record in the U.S.
“It is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute, catastrophic damage that we thought was likely,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said. “But, we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage.”
The developments came as President Trump is planning to head to the Gulf Coast this weekend to survey the damage inflicted by Laura, which made landfall early Thursday with top winds of 150 mph -- putting it among the strongest systems on record in the U.S.
“It is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute, catastrophic damage that we thought was likely,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said. “But, we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage.”
Hurricane damage at Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge (RI) by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region is licensed under Creative Commons Flickr
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