Hurricane Laura came barreling through Louisiana this week, leaving widespread damage in the city of Lake Charles. Read the latest here:
In front of the courthouse, a Confederate statue - which local officials had voted to keep in place days before - was knocked down by Laura.
"It looks like 1,000 tornadoes went through here - it's just destruction everywhere," said Brett Geymann, who stayed with three relatives in Moss Bluff, near Lake Charles."There are houses that are totally gone," he said. The hurricane was downgraded to a tropical storm at 10pm on Thursday, with winds of 40mph, as the National Hurricane Centre said it will move to the mid-Mississippi Valley later on Friday then to the mid-Atlantic states on Saturday.
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