Hurricane Delta is clear ashore after making landfall earlier this hour near Creole, a small unincorporated community in eastern Cameron parish that’s about 40 miles south of Lake Charles as a category 2 storm, but it appears to be quickly falling apart with radar scans showing the eyewall has mostly collapsed. That’s good news as only the northern eyewall has persisted and folks under the wall won’t face the wrath of a southern side of the eyewall landing a second blow.
Governor Edwards says even though the system has weakened it will still bring some potentially damaging winds deep into the state.
Radar shows scattered rain bands are stretching as far north as the Monroe area and as far east as Livingston Parish.
From its landfall in Creole the storm is expected to take a gentle northeastern curve and power through Alexandria before pushing into the Delta parishes and out into north Mississippi. State Climatologist Barry Keim says this won’t be the biggest storm to hit us this year but we certainly aren’t dodging a bullet.
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Flash flooding is possible with Hurricane Delta. About ten inches of rain fell north of Baton Rouge on Thursday night, flooding about 25 homes in Baker. Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness spokesperson Mike Steele says you don’t have to be in the direct path of Delta to be impacted…
About eight inches of rainfall has been recorded so far in Lake Charles.