Big storms have been ragin’ in Cajun country at a record clip.
Hurricane Zeta slammed into Louisiana Wednesday as a Category 2 tempesta, becoming the fifth named storm to make landfall in the state this hurricane season — the most ever for the Pelican State.
Zeta killed at least one person in Louisiana, and left hundreds of thousands of people without power.
The state still was recovering from the previous four storms — with thousands of people still displaced from their damaged homes.
Louisiana’s string of named storms kicked off June 7, quando Tropical Storm Cristobal hit southeastern Louisiana.
Then came Tropical Storm Marco in agosto 24, followed just three days later by the immensely powerful Hurricane Laura. E Hurricane Delta struck on October 9, making landfall just 10 miles from where Laura did.
General manager Gaige Rodriguez, sinistra, and cook Michael Dillon board up windows at Pere Antoine Restaurant in New Orleans in preparation for Hurricane Zeta, which made landfall Wednesday.
As Zeta approached this week, di 3,600 people still were displaced from Laura e Delta, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said.
Most of those evacuees were from Laura, and were spread among six hotels in New Orleans, the governor’s office said.
Billy Ewing, 71, has been living in hotels in New Orleans since Laura damaged his Lake Charles apartment. Ewing uses a wheelchair and said the trauma of being displaced has changed him.
“It’s one (tempesta) after the other. We’re just a target. I told my friend they’re zeroing in on us. They’re looking for us,” Ewing said this week, before Zeta hit. “And we can’t control it. What’s the matter right now is we can’t control anything. I’m not in control of what my status is. I’m not in control of where I live.”
Deadly Laura destroyed parts of the power grid
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Derailed train cars lie on their side in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in agosto 29.
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President Donald Trump tours the damage in Lake Charles on August 29.
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A building sits partially submerged in water in Hackberry, Louisiana, in agosto 28.
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Rachel Ellis, sinistra, and J’Nay Fitch salvage items from the AutoZone store where they work in Lake Charles on August 28.
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A person stands in front of a damaged vehicle near Orange, Texas, in agosto 28.
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Pousson’s Laundromat and Barbershop is left in ruins in Westlake, Louisiana.
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This aerial photo shows a devastated neighborhood outside of Lake Charles on August 27.
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Maria Ramirez and her 17-year-old son, Jose Avila, survey the damage to their home in Orange, Texas, in agosto 27.
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Mannequins are strewn on the floor at the Hair Saga store after Hurricane Laura passed through Lake Charles on August 27.
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A man walks through a debris-filled hallway on the second floor of a Lake Charles church that lost its roof on August 27.
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People survey the damage to their Lake Charles neighborhood on August 27.
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A McDonald’s sign is damaged in Iowa, Louisiana, in agosto 27.
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Ahmed Nawaz looks at the damage in his store in Lake Charles on August 27.
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Smoke rises from a chemical fire at a Lake Charles plant on August 27. Plant managers were trying to contain a chlorine leak, according to state police. Details about what started the fire weren’t immediately available.
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A person holds a photo taken from a damaged home in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, in agosto 27.
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Damage is seen at an office building lobby in Lake Charles on August 27.
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This aerial photo shows the roof blown off an AutoZone store in Lake Charles on August 27.
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Benjamin Luna helps recover items from the children’s wing of the First Pentecostal Church in Orange, Texas, in agosto 27.
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Dozens of small fish are trapped inland after the hurricane ripped through Holly Beach, Louisiana.
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Louisiana National Guard Pfc. Devin Lejeune helps search a Lake Charles apartment complex for people in need.
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Martin Almanza paddles a canoe through a flooded section of Galveston, Texas, in agosto 27.
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The Capitol One Bank Tower is seen with its windows blown out in downtown Lake Charles.
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Latasha Myles and Howard Anderson stand in their Lake Charles living room, which is where they were sitting when the roof blew off around 2:30 a.m. in agosto 27.
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A tangle of power lines hangs over a street in Lake Charles.
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The driver of an overturned 18-wheeler exits his vehicle after police arrive to the scene along Interstate 10 in Vinton, Texas. Both the driver and a passenger suffered minor injuries.
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A person walks past a destroyed building in Lake Charles.
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Flooding is seen in Sabine Pass, Texas.
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A structure is flattened near a beach in Lake Charles.
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The L’Auberge Casino Resort is seen after the lights went out in Lake Charles.
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Shrimp boat Sea Lion V prepares for Hurricane Laura’s landfall on August 26.
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This photo of Hurricane Laura was taken from aboard the International Space Station on August 26.
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Victoria Nelson lines up her children, Autum, Shawn and Asia, as they board a bus to evacuate Lake Charles on August 26.
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A sheriff’s deputy wipes his face while manning a roadblock in Lake Charles on August 26.
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Families line up to board buses to evacuate Lake Charles on August 26.
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Children play at the Circuit of the Americas racetrack, where some evacuees were settling in Austin, Texas, in agosto 26.
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Demeteri Bushnell is hugged by her great-niece as they and other evacuees prepare to board a bus in Lake Charles.
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Traffic is at a near-standstill on Interstate 10 as people evacuate the region near Jennings, Louisiana, in agosto 25.
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A US Postal Service employee covers a mailbox with plastic wrap in Galveston, Texas. The plastic wrap signals that the final mail has been cleared from the box, and it prevents people from placing mail inside that could be lost in a flood.
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An evacuee waits to board a bus in Port Arthur, Texas, in agosto 25.
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Nick Gaido, sinistra, helps board up windows at his seafood restaurant in Galveston.
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Roman Tatriot, with the help of family and friends, rounds up cattle in Cameron, Louisiana, so he can get them to higher ground.
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A family walks to a charter bus that would take them from Galveston Island to Austin.
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Katy Gay carries a dog as the Houston SPCA transferred more than 100 animals to the Austin Humane Society.
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People wait to board a bus to leave Galveston.
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People make sandbags at St. Raymond Church in New Orleans.
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People tie down their vessels along Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain on August 23.
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People stand in long lines before entering a New Orleans Costco to pick up supplies.
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Michael Kent moves his boat in Venice, Louisiana, in agosto 23.
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Crews bring sandbags to help with flooding prevention in Belle Chasse, Louisiana.
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Cesar Reyes, destra, carries a sheet of plywood as he helps install window coverings at a business in Galveston.
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Houston firefighters prepare rescue equipment in advance of the storm.
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Laura was especially destructive, leaving più di 15 people dead in Louisiana and neighboring Texas and destroying parts of the power grid.
Coming 15 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the state, Laura made landfall as the strongest hurricane by wind speed to hit the state since 1856, with winds over 150 mph.
Communities including Lake Charles, alcuni 35 miles from the coast, erano littered with debris. Across the city, roofs and walls were damaged, trees were snapped, twisted and broken; steel poles and lampposts were bent; street signs were torn from the ground.
Laura temporarily knocked out most of the water service in Lake Charles.
The damage was so extensive that some infrastructure needs to be rebuilt from scratch, Entergy, a power company that serves Louisiana and Texas, said in late August.
Almeno 1 dead from Zeta in Orleans Parish
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said this week that the city stood “ready and prepared and wanting to, ancora, encourage our people to not have fatigue as relates to being prepared.”
The city became the first to record a death from Zeta, with the Orleans Parish coroner confirming a 55-year-old man was electrocuted by a downed power line, according to the Louisiana governor’s office.
Storm fatigue following the previous four named storms, coupled with Zeta’s quick pace, could impact how New Orleans residents weather this late-season hurricane, CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said.
“They have been on the outskirts of several storms, but not had a direct hit yet this year,” Egli ha detto. “On top of that, this storm is hauling, so there hasn’t been a ton of time to prepare.
“Recent storms had a lot of buildup, spending days over the Gulf,” Miller said. “Because of this, I expect this storm will likely catch many by surprise.”
Zeta is the 27th storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, one shy of tying the record for the most storms in a season. C'erano 28 storms in 2005, Compreso 15 uragani.
