⁍ Hurricane Delta made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour (161 kph)
Storm brought local flooding of streets and riverbanks after closely tracking path of Hurricane Laura.

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⁍ Storm was expected to weaken further to a tropical depression later on Saturday.

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– Coastal Louisianans on Saturday surveyed the damage left by the wind and water that Hurricane Delta raked across their already storm-battered homes even as it weakened quickly after coming ashore and moved rapidly toward the northeast. Hundreds of thousands of residents were left without power after Delta made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour on Friday near the town of Creole. By Saturday morning, however, Delta barely ranked as tropical storm with winds down to 40 miles per hour, although it continued bringing heavy rains to northeastern Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, the National Hurricane Center reports. The storm brought local flooding of streets and riverbanks after closely tracking the path of destruction left by more powerful Hurricane Laura, which came ashore in late August with 150mph winds. “Though Delta may have been a ‘weaker’ storm than Laura, Delta has been more of a water event than a wind event,’ Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter wrote on Facebook on Saturday. With his entire city without power, Hunter urged residents who had evacuated to stay away for at least another day. Laura damaged tens of thousands of homes, leaving roofs across the region dotted with protective blue tarpaulins and more than 6,000 people living temporarily in hotels. Delta spared many of the rooftop tarps that were still up, but it flooded some streets and littered others with downed trees and branches street. “Laura was much worse,” Lake Charles resident Matthew Williams, 49, tells Reuters. “This was more rain than wind.”