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Francine lashes Louisiana, leaves hundreds of thousands without power

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Francine lashes Louisiana, leaves hundreds of thousands without power

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Francine weakened into a tropical depression Thursday morning over south-central Mississippi, soaking that state and its neighbors in heavy rain after it slammed into the Louisiana coast Wednesday evening as a dangerous category 2 hurricane.

The storm knocked out electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses and threatened widespread flooding as it sent a potentially deadly storm surge rushing inland along the Gulf Coast. But Francine quickly lost much of its punch as it moved over land, and it was initially downgraded to a tropical storm late Wednesday night.

More than 382,000 customers were without power across Louisiana Thursday morning, and some 61,000 were in the dark in Mississippi, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us.

Francine continued to weaken Thursday morning, with maximum sustained winds dropping to 35 mph by 8 a.m. EDT, according to the National Hurricane Center. A tropical storm is reclassified as a tropical depression when its maximum winds dip below 38 mph.

The National Hurricane Center said Francine was moving farther inland and bringing heavy rain to Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. It was expected to turn northward and slow down within the next day or so, while weakening even more, and forecasters said Francine would likely become a post-tropical cyclone later on Thursday.

Visuals filmed on 11th September in Walker ,LA

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