Evacuees board buses Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Galveston, Texas. The evacuees are being taken to Austin, Texas, as Hurricane Laura heads toward the Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Published Credit: David J. Phillip/Associated Press
David J. Phillip/Associated PressMIAMI — The National Hurricane Center says Laura has weakened to a Category 2 hurricane as it moves deeper inland over Louisiana.
That’s no longer a major hurricane but it still has extremely dangerous maximum sustained winds of 110mph (175 kph), nearly five hours after striking the coast and pushing what forecasters called an unsurvivable storm surge miles inland.
Forecasters say it’s centered about 45 miles (70 kilometers) north-northwest of Lake Charles and moving north at 15 mph (24 kph).
Laura’s eye hit a stretch of Louisiana near the Texas state line early Thursday as a Category 4.
Authorities had ordered more than 580,000 coastal residents to evacuate, but not everyone did. Now they have to wait until conditions ease before attempting search and rescue missions and assessing the damage.
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