— Hurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast before weakening rapidly Sunday, sparing the region the kind of catastrophic damage wreaked by series of hurricanes that hit the southern U.S. and Caribbean in recent weeks. The storm surge from the Mississippi Sound littered Biloxi’s main beachfront highway with debris and flooded a casino’s lobby and parking structure overnight. Nate was steadily weakening after making its first landfall in a sparsely populated area of Plaquemines Parish. Biloxi city employees worked before dawn to clear debris on Highway 90, the four-lane beachfront highway, where Nate had washed up sand and logs and even a large trash bin. He said Nate was nothing like Katrina, which pushed 8 feet of water into his east Biloxi house.

Source: National Post October 08, 2017 12:22 UTC