Zeta, which came ashore Wednesday in Louisiana as a strong Category 2 hurricane, wreaked havoc as it raced across the Southern U.S. Thursday morning.
Zeta ripped off roofs, knocked down power lines and trees and flooded streets as it roared through Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia early Thursday. Heavy rain and winds also pounded eastern Tennessee and the Carolinas.
More than 2.6 million homes and businesses were without power across seven states as of 1 p.m., according to power outage.us. In Georgia alone, more than 755,000 customers remained without electricity after the number reached more than 1 million earlier. Alabama had more than 489,000, and Louisiana reported 475,000 outages. North Carolina jumped to almost 461,000 outages, and South Carolina reported more than 170,000 customers without electricity.
At least six people died in the storm. In Louisiana, a 55-year-old New Orleans man was electrocuted by low-hanging power lines. In Mississippi, a man taking video of the storm in Biloxi drowned at a marina, the Sun Herald reported. In Georgia, three people died after trees fell on their homes. One person also died in Alabama when a tree fell on a home, The Associated Press reported.
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The storm made landfall about 4 p.m. CDT Wednesday near Cocodrie in Terrebonne Parish and moved over New Orleans with howling winds and driving rain. Here’s a look at some of the impacts of the storm state by state.
The Carolinas
In North and South Carolina, hundreds of trees were toppled, knocking power out to more than a half million homes and businesses…
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