⁍ Hurricane Zeta tore across the U.S. South on Thursday with strong winds that left a trail of downed trees, snapped power lines and killed at least three people.
⁍ The storm brought 110 mile-per-hour (175 km-per-hour) winds to the Louisiana coast and knocked out power to 2.4 million people from Louisiana to North Carolina.
⁍ Zeta is the fifth named storm to strike Louisiana this year and the 27th named storm this season, one less than the record set in 2005.
– “Now is not the time to go sightseeing.” That’s the message from New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell as Hurricane Zeta ripped through the South on Thursday, knocking out power to 2.4 million people from Louisiana to North Carolina, Reuters reports. A New Orleans man died after touching a live power line, while two others were killed in Mississippi and Georgia from the coastal storm surge and a wind-felled tree, police reported. One man was injured when an apartment building collapsed. Zeta is the fifth named storm to strike Louisiana this year and the 27th named storm this season, one less than the record set in 2005. Hurricanes are getting stronger and spinning slower, as they pick up energy from the heat in the oceans due to climate change. “Now is not the time to go sightseeing,” Cantrell said.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-zeta/fast-moving-hurricane-zeta-kills-three-as-it-rips-across-us-south-idUSKBN27E2AN