Southeast Louisiana is recovering from the fifth named storm to make landfall in the state this year, the near category three Hurricane Zeta. Governor Edwards says unfortunately we are reporting the first storm-related death, a 55-year-old New Orleans man who died from electrocution due to a downed powerline.
The PSC reports power has been restored for approximately 30-thousand customers and 439-thousand are still without power.
Weather in the Bayou State has run the gamut this week, after a Category Two hurricane strikes the state, now we are experiencing much cooler temperatures in less than 24 hours. State Climatologist Barry Keim says temps will be even chillier on Friday.
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 wind which caused power outages and downed trees causing unsafe driving conditions for citizens in the area.
St. Bernard Parish President Guy McInnis says winds of 100-miles per hour were clocked at their emergency operations center in Chalmette as Zeta ripped through the parish. McInnis says there were no serious injuries during the storm, and he would like to keep it that way…
The St Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office is imposing a strict curfew tonight from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m. Friday