Storm Marco closes in on Louisiana with Laura expected later this week

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>After a day as a hurricane&comma; tropical storm Marco is approaching Louisiana in the United States&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Meanwhile&comma; tropical storm Laura is forecast to move along Cuba’s southern coast before entering the Gulf of Mexico and heading towards the same stretch of US coast later in the week&comma; most likely as a hurricane&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Gulf Coast braced for a history-making onslaught from the twin storms&comma; with many evacuees recalling the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005&comma; when catastrophic flooding hit New Orleans and as many as 1&comma;800 people died&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What we know is there’s going to be storm surge from Marco&comma; we know that that water is not going to recede hardly at all before Laura hits&comma; and so we’ve not seen this before and that’s why people need to be paying particular attention&comma;” Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards warned at a briefing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Laura caused the deaths of at least 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti&comma; while cutting off power and causing flooding in the two nations that share the island of Hispaniola&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Marco had grown into a hurricane early on Sunday&comma; but America’s National Hurricane Centre said its sustained winds decreased to 70mph after nightfall&period; The centre cautioned that Marco could still cause life-threatening storm surges and dangerous winds along the Gulf Coast&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Marco was centred about 115 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River land heading north-west at 10mph on Monday morning&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Laura was centred about 175 miles east-southeast of Cayo Largo on Monday morning&comma; and had maximum sustained winds of 65mph&period; It was moving west-northwest at 21mph and was predicted to strengthen into a hurricane by Tuesday morning as it followed a path likely to take it to the Louisiana coast by Wednesday night&comma; forecasters said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;160775" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-160775" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;08&sol;4B2C75D0-C091-4C18-AA0A-932F08008A7F&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"400" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-160775" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-160775" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Salvaged items stand next to a damaged house near a river after the passing of tropical storm Laura in Port-au-Prince&comma; Haiti<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>In the wake of Laura’s passage through the Caribbean&comma; authorities reported at least 11 deaths on Sunday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Haitian civil protection officials said they had received reports a 10-year-old girl was killed when a tree fell on a home in the southern coastal town of Anse-a-Pitres&comma; on the border with the Dominican Republic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Haiti’s prime minister said at least eight other people died and two were missing&period; In the Dominican Republic&comma; relatives told reporters a collapsed wall killed a mother and her young son&period; Hundreds of thousands were without power in the Dominican Republic amid heavy flooding in both countries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite Marco’s weakening&comma; a storm surge warning remained in place from Morgan City&comma; Louisiana&comma; to Ocean Springs&comma; Mississippi&period; A tropical storm warning included Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana&comma; and metropolitan New Orleans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd37b9b0fa1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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