Storm Nicholas moves over Louisiana, drenching US Gulf coast
Al Jazeera
The storm is dumping heavy rain on southern Louisiana, the coasts of Mississippi, Alabama and parts of Florida.
Storm Nicholas has weakened to a tropical depression as it crawls from Texas into southern Louisiana on Wednesday, unleashing heavy rain across a landscape where Hurricane Ida recently destroyed thousands of rooftops, now covered with flimsy tarpaulins.
Forecasters said Nicholas would slow to a stall over central Louisiana through Thursday, with plenty of water still to dump east of its centre, drenching the Gulf Coast as far as the western Florida Panhandle.
The damage from Nicholas comes just two weeks after Hurricane Ida killed more than 80 people across at least eight US states and devastated communities in coastal Louisiana near New Orleans.
