Laura carves destructive path through Louisiana; 4 dead
Companies, agencies, institutions, etc
AP
Biolab
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Colorado State University
People
CHARLES
Laura
John Bel Edwards
Brett Geymann
Greg Abbott
Donald Trump
Bucky Millet
Agosto
Phil Klotzbach
Camille
Andrew
Charley
Jeff Martin
Kevin McGill
John L. Mone
Paul J. Weber
Seth Borenstein
Juan A. Lozano
Jay Reeves
Jill Bleed
Sophia Tulp
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Republican
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Comet
the Gulf Coast
the Atlantic Ocean
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Hispaniola
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Broad Street
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LAKE
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U.S.
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Arkansas
Lake Charles
Moss Bluff
Texas
Lake Arthur
Bethany Agosto
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the Dominican Republic
Marietta
Georgia
New Orleans
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Austin
Kensington
Maryland
Houston
Birmingham
Alabama
Little Rock
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Events
Katrina
Labor Day
Summary
But initial reports offered hope that Laura, despite leaving entire neighborhoods in ruins and more than 875,000 people without power, was not the annihilating menace that forecasters had feared.“It is clear that we did not sustain and suffer the absolute, catastrophic damage that we thought was likely,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said. “But we we have sustained a tremendous amount of damage,” he said.He called it the most powerful hurricane to strike Louisiana, meaning it surpassed even Katrina, which was a Category 3 storm when it hit in 2005.The hurricane’s top wind speed of 150 mph (241 kph) put it among the strongest systems on record in the U.S. Not until 11 hours after landfall did Laura finally weaken into a tropical storm as it plowed north and thrashed Arkansas.The storm came ashore in low-lying Louisiana and clobbered Lake Charles, an industrial and casino city of 80,000 people.
As said here by GERALD HERBERT, MELINDA DESLATTE and STACEY PLAISANCE