An “unsurvivable” storm has suddenly grown from a category 1 into a monster hurricane and is now threatening the United States coast.
It said: “ unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage from Sea Rim State Park, Texas, to Intracoastal City, Louisiana.”
“The power of Hurricane Laura is unprecedented, and Texans must take action now to get out of harm’s way and protect themselves,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott said. “Hurricane Laura is a very dangerous and rapidly intensifying hurricane,” Mr Trump tweeted. “My administration remains fully engaged with state and local emergency managers.”Jimmy Ray was among those heeding evacuation orders in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Another evacuee in Lake Charles, Patricia Como, said her sister, her brother, cousins and other family members had stayed behind but she was “not going to take a chance”.Thousands of people are being evacuated. Picture: Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFPCraig Brown, acting mayor of Galveston, Texas, which suffered the deadliest hurricane in US history in 1900 with thousands of deaths, said the authorities were “monitoring this very closely”.
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