Hurricane Zeta tore across the US South on Thursday with strong winds that left a trail of downed trees, snapped power lines and killed at least three people.
The storm brought 110 mile-per-hour (175 km-per-hour) winds to the Louisiana coast and knocked out power to 2.4 million people from Louisiana to North Carolina.
A New Orleans man died after touching a live power line, while two others were killed in Mississippi and Georgia from the coastal storm surge and a wind-felled tree, police reported.
Crews overnight cleared major roadways of tree limbs and snapped electrical lines as residents hauled wind-swept debris to the curb in New Orleans. One man was injured when an apartment building collapsed.
“It has not been a great year for the energy or the insurance industries,” said Andrew Siffert, a vice president at reinsurance brokerage BMS Group. Insured damages from this year’s parade of storms will approach $25 billion, he estimated.
Zeta spun up in the Caribbean Sea and went from tropical storm to a damaging, Category 2 hurricane in less than four days. It struck Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and raced across the Gulf of Mexico.
The storm brought 110 mile-per-hour (175 km-per-hour) winds to the Louisiana coast and knocked out power to 2.4 million people from Louisiana to North Carolina.
A New Orleans man died after touching a live power line, while two others were killed in Mississippi and Georgia from the coastal storm surge and a wind-felled tree, police reported.
Crews overnight cleared major roadways of tree limbs and snapped electrical lines as residents hauled wind-swept debris to the curb in New Orleans. One man was injured when an apartment building collapsed.
“It has not been a great year for the energy or the insurance industries,” said Andrew Siffert, a vice president at reinsurance brokerage BMS Group. Insured damages from this year’s parade of storms will approach $25 billion, he estimated.
Zeta spun up in the Caribbean Sea and went from tropical storm to a damaging, Category 2 hurricane in less than four days. It struck Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and raced across the Gulf of Mexico.
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