Tropical Storm Delta is nearly out of Louisiana, but it has left hundreds of thousands without power after coming ashore as a Category Two hurricane last night in Cameron Parish. The center of Delta is in northeast Louisiana, but moving north-northeast at 16 miles per hour.

Many people are starting their day without power. Entergy reports 320-thousand customers are without power. Cleco says they have 125-thousand customers with no electricity. SLEMCO says its restoration process began at 5 AM as 98-thousand customers are without power. SWEPCO says they have 22-thousand outages.

Since we are seeing widespread power outages, the state department of transportation is reminding motorists that if you arrive at an intersection with traffic signals that have no power, it should be treated as a four-way stop sign. The first vehicle to arrive at the intersection proceeds first.

This morning, Governor Edwards will hold a Unified Command Group briefing to get updates on what happened in southwest Louisiana and elsewhere last night. He’s scheduled to flyover affected areas, weather permitting.

As Delta pushes away from Louisiana, the National Weather Service says wind gusts of 35 miles per hour are still possible into the early afternoon for portions of central Louisiana and the Ark-La-Miss.

The highest wind speed recorded last night was in Lake Arthur at 96-miles per hour. Lake Charles had a wind speed of 95, 90-miles per hour in New Iberia and 89 in Jennings. Preliminary data shows a wind speed of 75-miles per hour in Opelousas and Lafayette and 63-miles per hour in Alexandria.

Delta was the fourth named storm to make landfall in Louisiana, which ties a record for the state set in 2002. Delta’s eye made landfall just 12 miles to the east of where Laura came ashore six weeks ago.