Delta landed on Friday night as a Category 2 hurricane. Here is what that looks like:
Hundreds of thousands were left without power, and storm surge and flash flood warnings continue to be in place for Louisiana and neighboring areas in Mississippi and Texas. The state also continues to reel from the devastation of Hurricane Laura in late August, which killed 26.
While it rapidly weakened upon landfall, eventually downgrading to a tropical depression as of late Saturday morning, it had damaged an already hard-hit area — particularly in towns like Lake Charles, Louisiana, where repairs from Laura were still incomplete.
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