Hurricane Delta came ashore Friday night as a Category Two hurricane in the town of Creole, which is located in Cameron Parish. It’s the second hurricane to make landfall in Cameron Parish in 43 days. Hurricane Laura made landfall just 12 miles to the west of Creole
Lake Charles which was hammered by Laura once again experienced hurricane-force winds. The highest wind speeds were in Lake Charles, 95 miles per hour, Lake Arthur 96-miles per hour, and New Iberia recorded a wind speed of 90 miles per hour. The Lafayette and Opelousas areas recorded wind speeds of 75 miles per hour. Alexandria saw wind speeds at 45-miles per hour. And in Monroe, a 63-mile per hour wind gust was recorded at 1:30 Saturday morning.
There are thousands of crewmen working to restore power. As of Saturday afternoon, 560,000 customers are still without power.
The governor’s office says peak power outages for Hurricane Delta appear to be around 688,000. After Hurricane Laura, it was around 615,000 customers without power. The governor’s spokesperson Christina Stephens says Delta’s bands went over some more populated areas, despite it being a weaker storm than Laura. St. Bernard Parish was the only parish to not experience a power outage.
There have been some impressive rainfall totals from Delta even into Central and North Louisiana. Catahoula in Grant Parish has recorded 12 inches of rain. Jena almost ten inches, Natchitoches eight inches, and Monroe has seen over five inches of rain.
Zero deaths have been attributed to Hurricane Delta.
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