"It's a little bit worse than what I expected to be honest with you," said Alvin Cockerham, fire chief of Morgan City about 30 miles from landfall. "I pulled all my trucks back to the station. It's too dangerous to be out there in this."
The storm was forecast to be downgraded to a tropical depression Thursday as it churned northward over Mississippi, with 4 to 6 inches of rain possible in portions of Mississippi and neighboring states, sparking warnings of flash flooding.
Francine slammed the Louisiana coast with 100 mph winds in coastal Terrebonne Parish, battering a fragile region still recovering from devastating hurricanes in 2020 and 2021.
Power outages in Louisiana topped 362,546 just hours after landfall, reflecting the widespread impact of the storm across southeast Louisiana as it moved towards New Orleans.
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