Families on the southwest coast of Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico, are evacuating their homes in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Laura, one of the largest hurricanes to make landfall in history.
The Hurricane, thought to be the worst to hit the Gulf of Mexico in over 150 years, has been described by the United States’ National Hurricane Center as “catastrophic” and “unsurvivable”, as winds hit a sustained speed of 150 miles per hour. It is currently classed as category three out of five. Power is out in much of the area, as Hurricane Laura progresses north of Lake Charles, a city of 80,000 inhabitants.
