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Update: 27th of August, 6:25 p.m. UTC

After 10 hours of hitting US land, Hurricane Laura weakened to a tropical storm, with high wind speeds of 105 km / h, but without stopping the force of its rains.

With dawn, the numerous material damage caused by the hurricane as it passed through Louisiana is becoming evident.
At least one death and numerous damage is the preliminary balance of the arrival of Hurricane Laura to the southeast coast of the United States this Thursday.

The powerful storm, one of the most intense to hit the region in history, made landfall in the early hours of the morning as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

It did so, as the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) had anticipated, producing a "catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flooding."

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards confirmed the first fatality in his state, a 14-year-old girl who died from a tree falling on her home in the Leesville area.

One deceased and damages

The NHC reported that Laural's eye first reached the Cameron district of Louisiana at 01:00 am local time (06:00 GMT) and urged the population to protect themselves.

The cyclone registered winds of up to 240 km/h, but dropped to category 2 after making landfall. NHC forecasts indicate that a few hours later it would become a tropical storm.

In its report at 10:00 (15:00 GMT) this Thursday, the NHC reported that Laura maintained maximum sustained winds of up to 120 km/h, which corresponds to category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

The agency warned of a "dangerous storm surge" for the coasts of Texas and Louisiana, in addition to the fact that the floods seen in some areas will take "several days" to recede.

"Widespread flash flooding along streams, urban areas and on highways will continue through sections of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas," the alert read.

The arrival of the day showed the debris, broken windows and trees torn from the ground left by Hurricane Laura passage in Lake Charles.

Forecasters had originally warned of an "unsurvivable" storm surge.

However, a slight change in wind direction prevented some areas from flooding up to 20 feet. There were reports of 2.7 meters in some areas.

More than 540,000 homes in Louisiana and more than 130,000 in Texas were without power Thursday morning, according to the PowerOutage site.

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Extern

"Extremely dangerous," said the National Hurricane Center of the United States, about Hurricane Laura that this Wednesday had a resounding increase from category 3 to 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Winds of up to 220 kilometers per hour are expected in the next few hours due to the threat of Laura on the US and Mexican coasts of the Gulf, along with a flood of the waters.

Because of this, more than 400,000 people from Jefferson, Orange and Jasper counties and the island city of Galveston have had to evacuate before the storm, winds and flooding become dangerous.

To avoid COVID-19 infections, people in shelters spray their hands with disinfectant continuously, in addition, they maintain their healthy distance and the sites have “temperature controls”.

Meteorologists estimate that Laura will make landfall between Wednesday night and Thursday morning near the Texas-Louisiana border.

The temporary cyclone will have "huge destructive waves causing catastrophic damage" on the coast, the NHC said.

It is estimated that the high tide penetrates up to 50 kilometers inland and that the rise of the waters is between 4.5 and 6 meters above the average.

However, the NHC anticipates that it will have a "rapid weakening once Laura makes landfall."

They warn that there will be showers of between 130 and 250 millimeters, with some peaks of almost 400 mm in western Louisiana and eastern Texas.

For his part, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the state's National Guard was targeting coastal communities with offshore vehicles and rescue helicopters to prepare for Laura's impact. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Pete Gaynor said Tuesday that a team was already deployed to the region.

While the governor of Louisiana, John Edwards, said last Monday in a press conference that "this has the potential to be the strongest hurricane that has hit since Hurricane Rita", referring to the category 5 hurricane of 2005.

Likewise, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, asked the residents of the affected areas to "listen to local officials."

“Laura is a very dangerous hurricane and it is intensifying rapidly. "My administration continues to collaborate fully with state and local emergency managers," Trump said through his Twitter account.

The coincidence of the Laura storm tide with the high tide along the Gulf Coast from High Island in Texas to Morgan City in Louisiana could result in the water level rising as high as 10 feet.

This condition threatens the main oil refineries of Lake Charles in Louisiana and Beaumont and Port Arthur in Texas, located near the coast.

So the energy industry has reduced crude production to a minimum that approaches the level of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and has stopped oil refining.

According to the CNH, the storm became a hurricane when its center moved northwest over Cuba at 26 kilometers per hour and is expected to bring a dangerous storm in the coastal region from the Paso de San Luis in Texas to the mouth of the Mississppi river.

Hurricane Laura, which has already risen to category 4 on a scale of 5, is expected to pass through the shores of the Gulf of Mexico on August 26 and make a turn to the north-northwest. The US National Hurricane Center announces that the damage could be catastrophic.

This is a image of accumulation of wind

Hurricane Laura has strengthened into a Category 4 storm and is expected to make landfall east of Houston, near the Texas and Louisiana line, Wednesday night. Life-threatening impacts are expected for the Gulf states.

Laura Continues to Strengthen

Laura formed in the central Atlantic on Friday and has since moved into the Gulf of Mexico where it quickly strengthened into a hurricane.

Hurricane warnings run from San Luis Pass, Texas to Intracoastal City, Louisiana. Storm surge warnings are in place from Freeport, Texas to the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana.

On Wednesday morning, the National Hurricane Center referred to the storm surge threat from Laura as "unsurvivable". Up to 20 feet of storm surge could flood much of southwestern Louisiana and far southeastern Texas.

Category 4 Landfalls Are Rare

Since 1851, only 26 hurricanes of a Category 4 or 5 strength have made landfall on the continental United States. That means that a Category 4 or 5 landfall on the United States takes place only once every six or seven years.