The National Hurricane Center said Francine might reach Category 2 strength before crashing into a fragile coastal region that still hasn’t fully recovered from a series of devastating storms since 2020
Men board up a window ahead of the expected landfall of Hurricane Francine, in Morgan City, La., on Sept. 10.Hurricane Francine barrelled Wednesday toward Louisiana and is expected to make landfall in the coming hours as forecasters raised threats of potentially deadly storm surge, widespread flooding and destructive winds on the northern U.S. Gulf coast.
Once Francine makes landfall, Landry said, residents should stay in place rather than venture out into waterlogged roads and risk blocking first responders or utility crews working to repair power lines. Francine was centred Wednesday morning about 245 miles southwest of Morgan City, Louisiana, and was moving northeast at 10 mph with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph , the Miami-based hurricane centre said. Some additional strengthening is expected Wednesday morning and then Francine is expected to weaken quickly after it moves inland.
In downtown New Orleans, cars and trucks were lined up for blocks on Tuesday to collect sandbags from the parking lot of a local YMCA. CEO Erika Mann said Tuesday that 1,000 bags of sand had already been distributed by volunteers later in the day to people hoping to protect homes from possible flooding.
Francine is the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. There’s a danger of life-threatening storm surge as well as damaging hurricane-force winds, said Brad Reinhart, a senior hurricane specialist at the hurricane centre. Francine is taking aim at a Louisiana coastline that has yet to fully recover since hurricanes Laura and Delta decimated Lake Charles in 2020, followed a year later by Hurricane Ida.
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