Linda Smoot, who evacuated from Hurricane Laura in a pickup truck with eight others, reacts as she ... [+] returns to see her niece's damaged home, in Lake Charles, La., in the aftermath of the hurricane, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) ASSOCIATED PRESSKey FactsAs of Thursday afternoon, more than 280,000 people in southwest Louisiana didn’t have clean drinking water in their homes, with 14,475 lacking running water altogether. Southwest Louisiana had been a hotspot for coronavirus over the summer, and Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso announced last weekend that he had tested positive for the virus. “As people are outdoors cleaning up after Hurricane Laura, it is important to remove all standing water around a property. Louisiana is sheltering around 12,000 people, mostly at New Orleans hotels since congruent sheltering is being avoided because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Source: Forbes September 10, 2020 21:33 UTC