By 9:30 p.m. Friday, Delta had already delivered more than 17 inches of rain to the town of Iowa and more than 16 inches to parts of Lake Charles, an area still reeling from the effects of last month's Hurricane Laura.
Delta is the fourth named storm to hit Louisiana in 2020. Lake Charles minister Darren Worthington, whose church coordinates hurricane relief efforts, called the storm's effects"devastating," CBS News reported.
"This water will flow into surrounding basins and rivers, and unfortunately result in river flooding as well," according to a Saturday morning tweet from the service. Sheriff Tony Mancuso of Calcasieu Parish told KPLC-TV early Saturday that vehicles were overturned on Interstate-10, and that the situation remains"dangerous." Rising water is the biggest problem, and some areas have already been flooded, he said.
More than 780,000 people across Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas were reportedly left without power as the hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm and moved further inland at 16 miles per hour.
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