'We're just a target.' Zeta is fifth named storm to make landfall in Louisiana this hurricane season

Big storms have been raginin Cajun country at a record clip.

Hurricane Zeta slammed into Louisiana Wednesday 카테고리로 2 폭풍, becoming the fifth named storm to make landfall in the state this hurricane seasonthe most ever for the Pelican State.
Zeta killed at least one person in Louisiana, and left hundreds of thousands of people without power.
    The state still was recovering from the previous four stormswith thousands of people still displaced from their damaged homes.
    Louisiana’s string of named storms kicked off June 7, 언제 Tropical Storm Cristobal hit southeastern Louisiana.
    Then came Tropical Storm Marco 8 월 24, followed just three days later by the immensely powerful Hurricane Laura. 과 Hurricane Delta struck on October 9, making landfall just 10 miles from where Laura did.
    General manager Gaige Rodriguez, 왼쪽, and cook Michael Dillon board up windows at Pere Antoine Restaurant in New Orleans in preparation for Hurricane Zeta, which made landfall Wednesday.

    As Zeta approached this week, 약 3,600 people still were displaced from 로라델타, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said.
    Most of those evacuees were from Laura, and were spread among six hotels in New Orleans, the governor’s office said.
    Billy Ewing, 71, has been living in hotels in New Orleans since Laura damaged his Lake Charles apartment. Ewing uses a wheelchair and said the trauma of being displaced has changed him.
    It’s one (폭풍) after the other. We’re just a target. I told my friend they’re zeroing in on us. They’re looking for us,” Ewing said this week, before Zeta hit. “And we can’t control it. What’s the matter right now is we can’t control anything. I’m not in control of what my status is. I’m not in control of where I live.

    Deadly Laura destroyed parts of the power grid

    Laura was especially destructive, leaving 이상 15 people dead in Louisiana and neighboring Texas and destroying parts of the power grid.
    Communities including Lake Charles, 약간 35 miles from the coast, 했다 littered with debris. Across the city, roofs and walls were damaged, trees were snapped, twisted and broken; steel poles and lampposts were bent; street signs were torn from the ground.
    Laura temporarily knocked out most of the water service in Lake Charles.
    The damage was so extensive that some infrastructure needs to be rebuilt from scratch, Entergy, a power company that serves Louisiana and Texas, 8 월 말에 말했다.

    적어도 1 dead from Zeta in Orleans Parish

    New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said this week that the city stoodready and prepared and wanting to, 다시, encourage our people to not have fatigue as relates to being prepared.
    The city became the first to record a death from Zeta, with the Orleans Parish coroner confirming a 55-year-old man was electrocuted by a downed power line, according to the Louisiana governor’s office.
    Storm fatigue following the previous four named storms, coupled with Zeta’s quick pace, could impact how New Orleans residents weather this late-season hurricane, CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said.
    They have been on the outskirts of several storms, but not had a direct hit yet this year,” 그는 말했다. “On top of that, this storm is hauling, so there hasn’t been a ton of time to prepare.
      Recent storms had a lot of buildup, spending days over the Gulf,” Miller said. “Because of this, I expect this storm will likely catch many by surprise.
      Zeta is the 27th storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, one shy of tying the record for the most storms in a season. 있었다 28 storms in 2005, 포함 15 hurricanes.

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