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The Amite City, Louisiana-based owner of a hurricane recovery service expects to put in 18-hour days for the next two weeks after Francine passed over the area, leaving a trail of destruction.
MTS Oceanos was a French-built and Greek-owned cruise ship that sank in 1991 when she suffered uncontrolled flooding. Her captain, Yiannis Avranas, and some of the crew were convicted of negligence for fleeing the ship without helping the passengers, who were subsequently rescued thanks to the efforts of the ship's entertainers, who made a mayday transmission, launched lifeboats, and helped ...
Francine is spreading dangerous conditions across the South Thursday after it slammed into Louisiana with ... a Category 2 hurricane late Wednesday afternoon and weakened to a tropical depression ...
A fallen tree blocks an intersection on September 11, 2024 in Houma, Louisiana. Hurricane Francine has been upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane and continues to make landfall along the Louisiana coast.
Damage in Louisiana totaled to $150,000 (2002 USD, $260,000 2024 USD). September 5, 2002 – Tropical Storm Fay develops offshore the Louisiana coast before making landfall in Texas as a moderate tropical storm. West of Cameron, Fay causes a storm surge as high as 2.5 ft (0.76 m), resulting in minor beach erosion and coastal highway flooding. [17]
Hurricane Francine has been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane after making landfall in Louisiana, according to forecasters. A Category 1 storm has winds between 74 to 95mph. That is still ...
The 1856 Last Island hurricane (also known as the Great Storm of 1856) was a deadly and destructive tropical cyclone that is tied with 2020's Hurricane Laura and 2021's Hurricane Ida as the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as measured by maximum sustained winds. [1]
Any major storm near Louisiana evokes memories of Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated New Orleans and surrounding areas, killing nearly 1,400 people and causing $125 billion in ...