- High water forced about two dozen road closures in Baton Rouge Friday morning.
- Coastal flooding was reported in Port Fourchon.
- Evacuees clogged traffic on Interstate 10.
Motorists became stranded in high water and there were reports of flooded homes overnight in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as Hurricane Delta began to move ashore.
The storm is expected to make landfall along the coast this evening, where rising water was already being reported.
There were about two dozen road closures due to high water Friday morning in Baton Rouge, according to emergency management. The city's airport reported 8 inches of rain overnight and a flash flood warning was issued by the National Weather Service.
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Curt Monte, public information officer for the Baton Rouge Fire Department, told weather.com that crews responded to about 25 calls for assistance from motorists who were stuck in flood waters.
"I can tell you it was mostly flooded out, stalled vehicles, people not obeying the 'turn around and don’t drown' message,” Monte said.
He said officials were trying to confirm reports of some flooded homes in outer areas of the parish.
Photos and video posted to social media showed cars driving through high water in Baton Rouge.
Along the coast, water was rising at Port Fourchon, which is under a mandatory evacuation order.
Just outside of Lake Charles, patients were evacuated from the West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital in Sulphur. Patients were either being discharged or moved to other medical facilities in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, according to a news release.
At least five parishes had issued mandatory evacuation orders, including Calcasieu Parish, where Lake Charles is located, and Cameron Parish, where some areas are still under evacuation orders from Hurricane Laura. Traffic was backed up for miles on Interstate 10.
Residents in Lake Charles who did not have anywhere else to go or transportation to get there were being bused to shelters outside the city. Officials said evacuees would not receive hotel vouchers, which were given out for the Hurricane Laura evacuation in August.
Hurricane warnings have been issued for much of southwestern Louisiana, where just weeks ago Hurricane Laura destroyed 10,000 homes and left 35,000 others with major damage, according to Gov. John Bel Edwards.
"Those structures have not yet been repaired. The electrical infrastructure there is in the process of being repaired. And we’ve got people who are very tired. We’re still sheltering over 6,000 people from southwest Louisiana in 12 hotels, primarily in New Orleans," Edwards said in a radio interview Thursday. "It’s going to be a very challenging situation."
More than 1,000 National Guardsmen, 7,500 utility workers and dozens of high water rescue vehicles, boats and aircraft are standing by if needed, Edwards said in an earlier news conference. He said another 8,000 utility workers are waiting outside the state.
Officials were reminding people to be cautious when using generators during power outages after the storm. Precautions include never running a generator inside or adjacent to a home or building. At least nine people in Louisiana died of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by improper use of generators after Hurricane Laura.
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Men travel to clean the manatee lagoon after Hurricane Delta struck on Oct. 7, 2020, in Cancun, Mexico. Hurricane Delta reached the Mexican east coast, between Cancun and Playa del Carmen, forcing evacuations in tourist areas. It is the second strongest hurricane in the Atlantic this year, only after hurricane Laura, and is expected to hit the coast of Louisiana on Friday. (Erick Marfil/Getty Images)
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