This is heartbreaking for these people. The hits just keep coming. They can't even catch their breath.
Hurricane Delta Update: Louisiana Battered With More Than 17 Inches of Rain
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By 9:30 p.m. Friday, Delta had already delivered more than 17 inches of rain to the town of Iowa and more than 16 inches to parts of Lake Charles, an area still reeling from the effects of August's Hurricane Laura,
The New Orleans Advocate reported.
Delta made landfall near Creole, Louisiana, as a Category 2 storm, reporting maximum winds of 100 miles per hour. It marks the second hurricane to strike the area in six weeks, after Laura made landfall near Lake Charles as a Category 4 storm on August 27
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Sheriff Tony Mancuso of Calcasieu Parish told KPLC-TV early Saturday that vehicles were overturned on Interstate-10, and that the situation remains "dangerous." Rising water is the biggest problem, and some areas have already been flooded, he said.
On Saturday morning 2,500 members of Louisiana's National Guard were deployed to help the hardest-hit areas, according to CBS News.
More than 780,000 people across Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas were reportedly left without power as the hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm and moved further inland at 16 miles per hour.