Delta has weakened to a Depression over Western Mississippi, but it has left about half-million customers without power. Hurricane Delta made landfall as a Category Two hurricane with top winds at 100-miles per hour near Creole in Cameron Parish. 90-mile per hour plus wind speeds were recorded in Lake Charles, Lake Arthur, and New Iberia. Delta is the tenth named storm to make landfall this year in the United States, which is a record.

Governor John Bel Edwards is holding a Unified Command group meeting this morning and then he’ll conduct a flyover of the damage and will make a stop in Jennings. The Jefferson Davis town has numerous trees down.

Mandatory evacuations were issued for Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Jeff Davis, and most of Cameron. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso says their deputies have completed initial assessments and he says it’s safe for Calcasieu Parish residents to return to their homes.

Several roads are closed in southwest and central today as a result of high water. Delcambre took on a significant storm surge and many of the town’s streets are flooded.

Entergy says it has 292-thousand customers without power. At last report, Cleco says at the height of the storm 132-thousand of its customers were without power and 12-thousand of them have seen their electricity restored. The Pineville-based utility company says they have 21-hundred contractors working to clear debris, repair system damage, and restore power.

The governor’s office says peak power outages for Hurricane Delta appear to be around 688-thousand. After Hurricane Laura, it was around 615-thousand customers without power. The governor’s spokesperson Christina Stephens says Delta’s bands went over some more populated areas, despite it being a weaker storm than Laura.