Louisiana's governor is urging residents to be cautious in recovery work after Hurricane Delta left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the US state
Trucks are seen in a flooded lot after Hurricane Delta, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, US on October 10, 2020.
Though not as powerful as August's Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm that tore homes and businesses apart, Delta toppled trees and power poles, leaving hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents without power. He told southwest Louisiana residents that “we’re going to work as hard as we can as fast as we can to get everybody’s lives right side up again. As if Hurricane Laura wasn’t enough.”Some 3,000 National Guard troops had been called up to distribute relief supplies, clear roads, maintain security and conduct search and rescue operations, the governor said.600,000 without power
Laura's winds damaged tens of thousands of homes, leaving roofs across the region dotted with blue tarpaulins. More than 6,000 people were still living temporarily in hotels when Delta struck. Williams, who had just gotten his power back about a week and a half ago after the outage left by Laura, said he rode out the storm at his home.
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