Hurricane Delta makes landfall near Creole, La., as a Category 2 storm, bringing a ‘life-threatening’ storm surge
Hurricane Delta makes landfall near Creole, La., as a Category 2 stormAt 7 p.m. eastern, the National Hurricane Center declared Hurricane Delta made landfall near Creole, La., as a Category 2 storm with 100 mph winds.
Visibility dropped to less than 200 feet as the furious eyewall barreled through, with limbs and branches flying by. Rainfall rates of 3 to 4 inches per hour pressure-washed anything caught outdoors. The potential for excessive rain and flooding will expand from southwest Louisiana to central Louisiana overnight, including in the area around Alexandria.Sheets of rain, escalating winds in Lake Arthur, La., as Delta’s eyewall approachesLAKE ARTHUR, La. — Conditions were quickly deteriorating around 4 p.m. Central time on Friday as the increasingly ragged eyewall of Hurricane Delta trudged ashore.
Delta had an unusually large elliptical eye, close to 100 miles wide, a symptom of the expanding wind shield and a slow decrease in intensity. However, damaging winds and a dangerous storm surge are imminent as Delta makes landfall.
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