Zeta Hurricane hits Louisiana, USA

SANAA, Oct. 29 (YPA) – Hurricane Zeta hit the US state of Louisiana on Wednesday evening, with strong winds reaching 175 kilometers per hour and dangerous waves, which is the third hurricane to hit the state on the US Gulf Coast this year.
The hurricane’s associated high winds, a Category 2 hurricane, attacked a section of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Mississippi.
The US National Hurricane Center said the damaging hurricane winds would reach New Orleans, about 160 km from Cocodre, Louisiana, and sweep across sectors of southeastern Mississippi, Alabama and northern Georgia.
Waves as a result of the hurricane will reach 2.7 meters from Fortune, Louisiana, to the Pearl River in Mississippi, according to Reuters.
Louisiana Governor John Bill Edwards urged residents to take shelter from the storm, and pledged to begin rescue and recovery efforts as soon as it passed by.
Oil and gas companies evacuated 231 offshore production facilities, and stopped about two-thirds of oil production and 45 percent of natural gas production in the offshore zone.