Hurricane Delta's landfall in Louisiana could be 1st time a major hurricane strikes the same place twice in one season.
"The combination of a dangerous storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline," the National Hurricane Center said.
Six million people from Louisiana to Mississippi and western Tennessee were under flash flood watches Friday morning. It's the sixth time this season that people in Louisiana have braced for a hurricane., Delta was moving toward southwestern Louisiana around Lake Charles, just 14 miles east of where Hurricane Laura struck in late August.
If Delta were to strike the exact location as Laura as a Category 3, it would be the first time a major hurricane has hit the same place twice in one season. Regardless of Delta's final path, it's unusual for two major storms to hit the same area so near in time.Lake Charles is in the heart of a part of the state known as Cajun country, a historically French-influenced area.
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