Both storms are expected to hit the same component of the U. S. coast and later in the week.
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While two strong typhoons threatened the U. S. Gulf coast on Monday, meteorologists feared Marco would bring seawater to shore and snever torrential rains just two days before Laura spanked the same dominance with potentially stronger typhoon surges and winds.
Laura has killed at least 11 other people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, cutting off power and causing flooding in the two nations that make up Hispaniola Island.
Meteorologists have raised the option of being concerned that the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico could overwhelm Laura with a strong hurricane. Laura’s center was right next to Cuba and would not be weakened by land.
“Laura will move over the deep, very warm waters of the Gulf Stream and the Loop Stream in the southeast gulf, which can lead to a brief era of immediate intensification,” the National Hurricane Center said.
It’s a recipe for winds over 110 mph as Laura approaches the United States, meteorologists said.
“There’s definitely the option of it being a little more powerful and category 3,” said meteorologist Benjamin Schott, who runs the National Weather Service in Slidell, Louisiana.
Marco had a hurricane in the early morning of Sunday but then weakened. On Monday, it focused about 85 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and headed northwest at 10 mph. , leaving a flooded sea coast as a level for Laura.
Laura concentrated just south of central Cuba, flooding the top of the island with rain and strong winds. The strongest winds were 65 mph.
Rain bands from any of the typhoons can bring 2 feet of rain to parts of Louisiana and several feet of potentially fatal typhoon surge, meteorologists said.
“Basically, it would be more than 10 feet along the southwestern louisiana coast” at worst,” Schott said. The swell could also push the water up to 30 miles into the rivers, he said.
The combination of two storms can lead to a historic attack of potentially fatal winds and floods from Texas to Alabama, meteorologists said, which also occurs when Louisiana continues its fight against coronavirus infections.
Emergencies have been declared in Louisiana and Mississippi.
“The virus is not involved with the arrival of hurricanes, so it probably won’t take long and neither are we,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said. be aware of those mitigation measures. “
August Creppel, leader of the United Houma Nation, served around 17,000 members of the group in six parishes along the Louisiana coast.
“I’m very worried about my other people,” he said. We know that our other people will be affected. We just don’t know who yet. “
Creppel has contacted the Red Cross to deliver materials to those in need after storms, and the National Bureau in Houma, Louisiana, has answered calls from others with questions or who want help.
The double blow of two storms comes a few days before August 29 of hurricane Katrina’s 2005 anniversary. Creppel participated in a rite Saturday in the New Orleans Superdome that included songs and prayers from Native Americans.
Sarah Manowitz, manager of 4 bars in the city’s French Quarter, made sure the windows were closed, hit her own space and filled her water bath. He remained there, depending on a “community of people” caring for each other. Storms.
“We’re all going to help another percentage of food, percentage of all supplies,” he says.
In Haiti, civil servants who followed Laura said they had won reports that a 10-year-old woman had died when a tree fell into a space on the southern coast of the city of Anse-A-Pitres, on the border with dominican Republic Republic.
Haiti’s prime minister said at least eight other people had died and two were missing. In the Dominican Republic, relatives told reporters that a collapsed wall had killed a mother and her young son.
Hundreds of thousands of people were left without force in the Dominican Republic due to heavy flooding in both countries.