⁍ Delta made landfall near the town of Creole in Cameron Parish early Friday evening as a Category 2 hurricane.

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⁍ The storm knocked out power for more than half a million customers and compounded damage from the more powerful Hurricane Laura.

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⁍ Delta also cut most U.S. offshore Gulf of Mexico oil output and 62% of natural gas.

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– After battering Louisiana with winds of up to 100mph and knocking out power to more than half a million people, Hurricane Delta has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone, but the state remains under a heavy rainfall threat, Reuters reports. The storm made landfall Friday evening as a Category 2 hurricane, the most powerful to hit the region since Hurricane Laura in August. Louisiana’s Department of Children and Family Services says more than 9,000 residents are still in shelters as of Sunday morning. Insured losses from Delta are estimated at around $2 billion, while Laura’s losses were estimated at around $10 billion, including over $2 billion to offshore energy production facilities. “I don’t see any electricity coming back anytime soon, so I’m going to give them about a week and then come back,” says 77-year-old Sam Jones, who waited out the storm in his Lake Charles home. “When you can’t put any air on, it puts you to where you don’t get a good night sleep.”