Tropical Depression Nicholas moves into Louisiana

Now a tropical depression, Nicholas has made its mode from eastbound Texas into Louisiana, wherever it could dump respective inches of rainfall connected a authorities already recovering from a devastating hurricane.

Nicholas made landfall aboriginal Tuesday greeting arsenic a Category 1 hurricane adjacent Sargent Beach, Texas. It continued to hug the shoreline passim the time connected Tuesday, losing upwind speeds portion gradually making its mode eastward.

Nicholas did origin immoderate problems with Texas's powerfulness grid, arsenic much than 100,000 customers are presently without power.

While Nicholas nary longer packs the upwind speeds it did erstwhile it archetypal made landfall; the tempest continues to airs a menace to Texans and Louisianans due to the fact that of dense rainfall totals. Galveston, Texas, saw 14 inches of rainfall connected Tuesday, portion adjacent Houston got 6 inches of rain.

The National Weather Service predicts that parts of Louisiana could get as galore arsenic 10 inches of rain successful the coming days.

Nicholas' accomplishment successful Louisiana comes conscionable weeks aft 1 of the strongest storms successful the past of the authorities — Hurricane Ida — reached its shores. Ida devastated the state, downing trees, flooding areas and knocking retired powerfulness to hundreds of thousands. Even weeks later, astir 80,000 customers successful the authorities are inactive without power.

Entergy, the institution that provides energy to Louisiana, says Ida did more harm to the powerfulness grid than immoderate different hurricane successful authorities history.