Hurricane Laura had landfall near Cameron, La., early Thursday as a Category 4 quake, delivering a barrage of 150-mile-an-hour winds & a surge of water that was predicted to reach as remarkable as 20 feet. The storm weakened as it moved inland, while remained destructive with strong winds and heavy rain.

At Lake Charles, La., gusts blew out heaps of windows in a high-rise building and ripped the particular off a suitable sky bridge, tipped an R. V. on its side, and downed power lines . Utility companies reported that about 404, 000 customers in Louisiana and another 104, 000 in Texas have been completely without power Thursday morning, according to PowerOutage. us.

Landfall came after officials in both states issued the gravest of safety measures about a storm that is among the strongest ever to injured the United States, regulations data compiled due to Philip Klotzbach, a research scientist at Colorado State University who investigations hurricanes.

More than 1. 5 million people in you see, the coastal regions of Texas and Louisiana were under some form including evacuation orders. For those riding out the storm, there was tiny amount of to do but hunker down and wait for the winds to help die down, allowing search and rescue crews to set out to assist you help those who were stranded.

Thursday

Windows were blown in Square Charles, La.

Shrubs were uprooted by high winds in Sabine, Pass, Tex.

Laura knocked down power wires in Sabine Pass.

Downed trees in Lake Charles.

Roads were flooded in Sabine Pass.

A damaged gas station in River Charles.

The rainfall came ashore with 150-mile-an-hour winds.

Wednesday

Renee Allred, 20, and her family settled into a bus bound for Baton Rouge as part of an evacuation run the city of Lake Charles.

Cars parked under a highway overpass in Groves, Tex.

A boarded up home in Port Arthur, Tex.