The death of a 86-year-elderly person in Louisiana on Sunday was the linked casualty connected to the since-downsized Hurricane Delta, officials said.
The old casualty victim died in a fire that lighted from the refueling of a generator, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said.
“If you are using a generator, please be safe,” Edwards warned on Twitter.
Delta made landfall as a Category 2 storm on Friday close to the southwestern Louisiana town of Creole, turning into the second typhoon in the previous a month and a half to slam the area.
By Sunday, the storm was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. Its remnants were well inland, heading from the southern Appalachians up the east coast.
Delta knocked out power to more than 600,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana, Edwards said in a press briefing. But by Sunday, power was restored to about half those customers.
In late August, Hurricane Laura devastated parts of Louisiana, making landfall as a Category 4 storm.
Nearly 350,000 customers remained without power in the state — a drop from nearly 700,000 on Saturday, Edwards said. More than 100,000 of the outages were in Calcasieu Parish, in the state’s southwestern corner, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages across the country.
A hundred miles east, at a coastal camp near Weeks Bay, Craig Duhon was cleaning up several inches of mud and silt Sunday after a roughly 4-foot tidal surge swamped his property. Duhon had moved most of his belongings to his home in New Iberia, but he said the routine was difficult.
