Starting last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement started sending asylum seekers to eight additional for-profit jails and prisons in the Deep South. Even before Laura struck, detention was hard to endure for the immigrants and asylum seekers being held there. ICE denied nearly all of their applications to be released on parole. Brown did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Cox did say on Monday that power was back on at Jackson Parish and that water was being pumped in via a tanker. Cox did not respond to a follow-up question about reports that the bathrooms remained out of service. They reported that guards only sometimes wear masks.

A worker drilled plywood over the windows of the gas station near Interstate 10 in Winnie. Officials in numerous counties raced the hurricane to be ready: Officials issued curfew orders for 8 or 9 p.

In Orange County, officials staged boats and high-water vehicles at the county expo center, between Vidor and Orange. The plan was for dozens of police to bunk in the center, then hit the road at daybreak if winds waned.

Once the storm blows through, Jerry Redwine said the equipment will come back. Sulphur, La. The mining industry was replaced by refineries; those were replaced by petrochemicals.

Mike Danahay was elected mayor in and has lived in the area his whole 62 years. During the eye of the storm, Danahay came out of the boarded-up City Hall and brought in a blue street sign that had been banging against the wall of the building.

On HoustonChronicle. Five days after the storm, the trees and power lines had mostly been lifted off the roads. He juggled two cellphones and was thinking about trash. Recovery will take months. None of it will be glamorous. This poem has not been translated into any other language yet. What do you think this poem is about? For Example: love, art, fashion, friendship and etc. An estimated , people lack running water and , people are still without power in southwest Louisiana.

The region was already a hotspot: In July , the city of Lake Charles led the country in the number of new cases per capita. At her home in Lake Charles, Angel Edmonds celebrates her 18th birthday with her mother, her mother's boyfriend, two brothers, and best friend Lason. Her birthday cake was cooked outside on the gas grill. She had her 15th birthday in Texas during Hurricane Harvey, and her mother Ashley says the family lost everything during Hurricane Rita when Angel was only 3.

Hurricane Laura was one of the strongest storms to strike this portion of the Gulf, where Louisiana and Texas begin to blend together, where French immersion schools and cowboy hats are equally common. The hurricane slammed into the coast late Wednesday morning, with mph winds that blew for hours. Weather Hazards Briefing. Fire Weather. Text Forecasts and Statements. Forecaster's Discussion. Tropical Weather. Send Us a Report. Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. Disclaimer Information Quality Help Glossary.