Southeast Louisiana is recovering from the fifth named storm to make landfall in the state this year, the near category three Hurricane Zeta. Power is out to 469-thousand customers in Louisiana, but Governor John Bel Edwards says the good news is preliminary estimates show it won’t be weeks before the lights come on for most customers.
Hurricane Zeta was still a Category One storm when the center of the storm reached St. Tammany Parish. Parish President Mike Cooper says that even though the storm had weakened by the time it got there, St. Tammany still felt some significant winds.
Zeta made landfall around 4pm Wednesday near Cocodrie, which is located in Terrebonne Parish. Lieutenant Brennan Matherne with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s office says the southern end of their parish took quite a big hit.
There’s reported property damage in Golden Meadow and Leeville.
St. Bernard Parish President Guy McInnis says winds of 100-miles per hour were clocked at their emergency operations center in Chalmette.
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Due to the extensive damage in St Bernard, the Sheriff’s Office is imposing a strict curfew tonight from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. Friday