The dire needs of Lake Charles have been all but erased. Ida had rapidly strengthened in the 24 hours leading up to. Lauras maximum sustained winds jumped from 75 mph to 140 mph in the 24 hours ending 1 p.m. Ida, meanwhile, made landfall around midday Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph near Port Fourchon, the NHC said. But as many see it, the city was also the victim of an extraordinary year of misfortune, one that has subjected the nation to a carousel of calamity - record storm and wildfire seasons on top of a pandemic. The hurricane is a Category 4 and steady weakening is now expected through the morning hours. Lake Charles, a working-class city of roughly 78,000 people, has been eviscerated by a direct assault from this season’s hurricanes - Laura, one of the most powerful storms to hit Louisiana, followed six weeks later by Delta. The storm was later downgraded to a Category 2 with roughly 105 mph winds. 2 million utility customers now in the dark. “I want to say we’re tough, but I don’t know right now.” Hurricane Ian made landfall in Southwestern Florida just after 3 p.m. Thomas said of her hometown, and she is worried that the help will not come. “We’re not getting the help that we need,” Ms. Her plan to retire at 59½, as refinery workers often do, has been torn up along with her roof and the trees in her yard. Thomas, 56, from having to dip into retirement accounts to pay for home repairs.
And she is doing some rough math: Neither insurance money nor federal aid is enough to keep Ms. Harvey made landfall as a category 4 hurricane before stalling over the Houston region for four days with nonstop rains. She is replacing the car tire that was sliced by metal debris on the road. As the storm slowly moves away from Guam, the weather is expected to gradually improve on. It became extratropical and turned east-northeastward on September 11, passing across the Great Lakes, New England, and southeastern Canada. At that time Mawar’s maximum sustained winds were near 140 mph, equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane. After landfall, the cyclone turned northward through the Great Plains.
She is haggling with her insurance company, which reimbursed her for 14 of the 26 days her family stayed in a hotel. By the time the storm reached the Texas coast south of Galveston late on September 8, it was a Category 4 hurricane. Late last August, Texans watched and waited anxiously as Hurricane Harvey approached our state. The shock subsided quickly, replaced by the tedium and exasperation that accompany the slog toward recovery. A Storm to Remember:Hurricane Harvey and the Texas Economy Introduction. Trinette Thomas felt a barrage of surprise and despair as she strained to absorb the destruction surrounding her and imagine the lengths it would take to stagger back.
That first drive through Lake Charles after Hurricane Laura had been a gut punch.
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