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Name: Drone footage shows damage post-Hurricane Laura
Uploaded: 2020-08-31T12:27:27Z
Duration: 1 min 44 s

Drone footage shows damage post-Hurricane Laura

Published 31 August 2020, 11:02 am

The massive storm hit Louisiana early on Thursday (August 27) with 150 mile-per-hour (240 kph) winds, damaging buildings, knocking down trees and cutting power to more than 650,000 people in Louisiana and Texas. However, Laura's storm surge was much less than predicted. Officials called Laura the most powerful hurricane to strike Louisiana, surpassing even Katrina, which was a Category 3 storm when it hit in 2005.

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