(The Weather Channel) Zeta, which came ashore Wednesday in Louisiana as strong Category 2 hurricane, weakened to a tropical storm as it roared northeast through Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia early Thursday.
The storm ripped off roofs, knocked down power lines and trees and flooded streets near New Orleans where it came ashore. Storm surge flooded communities along the northern Gulf Coast. As the hurricane moved farther inland, trees and power lines fell in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
By 7 a.m. Thursday, nearly 2 million homes and business were without power across five states, according to power outage.us. Louisiana and Georgia had the most with 510,000 and 896,000 outages, respectively.