Enhances into Cat 2 storm …
MORGAN CITY, La. (AP)-- Hurricane Francine knocked into the Louisiana coast Wednesday night as an unsafe Category 2 storm that knocked out electrical power to more than a quarter-million consumers and threatened extensive flooding as it sent out a possibly lethal storm rise hurrying inland along the Gulf Coast.Francine crashed ashore in Terrebonne Parish, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southwest of Morgan City, the National Hurricane Center revealed at 4 p.m. CDT. Loading leading continual winds near 100 miles per hour (155 kph), the cyclone then damaged a delicate seaside area that hasn't totally recuperated from a series of ravaging cyclones in 2020 and 2021.Morgan City Fire Chief Alvin Cockerham stated the typhoon rapidly flooded streets, snapped power lines and sent out tree limbs cras...