⁍ Hurricane Zeta smashed into Louisiana on Wednesday with 110-mile-per-hour winds and what government trackers called ‘a life-threatening storm surge’
Zeta’s extremely dangerous winds pummeled a stretch of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Mississippi.

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⁍ The category 2 storm tied a 15-year-old record for the most hurricane strikes on the state in a single year.

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– Hurricane Zeta made landfall as a Category 2 storm in Louisiana on Wednesday, the third hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast state this year, the AP reports. The National Hurricane Center says the storm made landfall near the mouth of the Pearl River, where residents were told to get out of its way for a “life-threatening” storm surge of up to 9 feet. Forecasters say Zeta, which has maximum sustained winds of 110mph, is expected to be a Category 3 storm when it moves over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday. Louisiana and Alabama have declared states of emergency and oil and gas producers have evacuated 231 offshore production facilities and shut wells producing two-thirds of the offshore region’s oil production and 45% of its natural gas output, Reuters reports.