BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, EE.UU. (AP) – The tropical tormenta Francine was moving along in the Gulf of Mexico and had to conquer the Huracan category of March before making landfall in Louisiana.
The United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued a traffic alert in an area that was expected to extend from the city of Houston to the Mississippi coast near New Orleans, meaning there is a risk of flooding that could cause deaths.
Luisiana Governor Jeff Landry urged residents “not to panic, but we are prepared” and warned against evacuation. Meteorologists said Francine had previously reached skyscrapers over Luisiana, looking like a Category 2 hurricane, with speeds between 155 and 175 km/h (96 and 110 miles per hour).
“No worries about people going out into the streets and setting themselves on fire before the last moment,” Landry explained. “On the morning of the year, during hurricane season, there was a lot of information for the lady to prepare. When we did more preparation, we got the easiest results.”
It is the sixth tormenta by number of Atlantic hurricanes. Brad Reinhart, NHC Huracan expert, told the men that there is a danger that it could produce bicycle races and Huracanado performers and mortals.
There was also a possibility of 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) of air with a possibility of 12 inches (30 centimeters) locally in the greater Louisiana and Mississippi area, Reinhart said. Significant rainfall may also cause significant flooding in the downtown and urban areas.
Francine has settled in an area on the coast of Luisiana to not recover from everything after the Huracan fighters Laura and Delta left the city of Lake Charles in 2020, following a year after Huracan Ida. At the end of the week, a building of 22 plantations on Lake Charles was transformed into a symbol of the destruction caused by the tormentas that had been forever in the air for about four years, with the destroyed vents and the room that housed them.
The coastline generated by Francine on the Costa de Luisiana is 3 meters (10 meters) from Cameron, has reached Port Fourchon and reached the interior of Vermilion Bay with meteorologists.
In New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell urged residents to prepare to save their homes. “Now is the moment for our planes to take off for the ordeal and preparation, not only for our families, but also for us to embark on the journey,” he said.
The city’s residents will be within 15 centimeters (6 meters) of Luvia, will be high in elevation and “tornado-activated,” and climatic conditions will most likely be New Orleans, mountainous, and high in the mountains.
The NHC said Francine was located about 195 kilometers (120 miles) over the Bravo (Grande) River border and another 665 kilometers (415 miles) over Cameron, with maximum winds about 100 kilometers per hour (65 miles per hour) traveling toward northern Norway at a speed of 7 km/h (5 mph).
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Stengle reports from Dallas. Alfredo Peña in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, wrote this post.
