China News Service, October 30. According to the US Chinese website, the second-class hurricane "Zeta" that made landfall in the state of Louisiana in the United States has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone. It moved to the sea in October The 29th continued to bring heavy rainfall and strong winds to parts of the eastern United States.

At present, bad weather has caused at least six deaths, and more than 2.6 million homes and businesses in the south have been cut off.

Data map: On October 10th, local time, residents of Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA, were hit by another hurricane "Delta". Trees collapsed on their houses, and many residents chose to evacuate.

  On the afternoon of the 28th local time, "Zeta" landed in southeastern Louisiana.

According to the National Hurricane Center, the wind speed at the time of landing is about 110 miles per hour (about 177 kilometers per hour).

  Currently, bad weather has caused 6 deaths.

A man in New Orleans was electrocuted, a man in Mississippi was drowned, and a man in Georgia was killed when his mobile home was hit by an oak tree; near Atlanta, two people were hit by a tree , And was crushed to death; in addition, in Clark County, Alabama, another person died when his mobile home was hit by a tree.

  The US Weather Channel reported that in the early morning of the 29th local time, "Zeta" swept Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

The roofs of local residents were overturned, and the bad weather also caused the collapse of electric wires and trees, which caused floods to flood the streets.

Heavy rain and high winds also hit eastern Tennessee and the Carolinas.

  According to reports, the power outage caused by the storm also affected polling stations in some areas.

In northern Georgia, state officials said they were not sure how many of the 336 early polling stations in the state were closed or postponed to open; in Douglas County, a western suburb of Atlanta, all six polling stations and county offices had power outages.

At the same time, polling stations in parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Florida were also affected by the hurricane.

  Under the invasion of "Zeta", some areas along the Gulf of Mexico were severely affected.

In the coastal town of Waveland, Mississippi, Mayor Mike Smith said the damage to the town was comparable to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

  The US Weather Channel reported that a video from Grand Isle, Louisiana, showed that the roof of a large house was overturned, the roof of a gas station was also overturned, and telephone poles and wires were blown down.

  The report pointed out that "Zeta" was the 27th named storm in this unusually busy hurricane season, and the 11th tropical storm or hurricane to hit the United States in 2020. The number has broken the record.

Currently, there is more than a month before the end of the hurricane season.

  The U.S. Hurricane Center said that weather forecasters are still monitoring severe weather in an area in the Caribbean Sea, which may develop into a tropical depression or storm over the weekend or early next week.