Hurricane Laura strikes 250 km/h Louisiana in the United States causes tremendous damage

Weather forecasters warned that the storm, recorded in the category four when it struck the coast with winds reaching 150 miles per hour [240 km], threatened to cause an inevitable wave of storms.

Hurricane Laura is one of the biggest storms the United States has hit, writes BBC, translates Periscope.

Half a million inhabitants are told to leave parts of Texas and Louisiana.

This hurricane immediately caused flooding in the early morning hours of local time. Later, however, he sat down on a scale in category three, with winds reaching 208 miles per hour.

The storm has dropped even more into force, falling into category two, and is expected to weaken further.

More than 390 thousand homes in Louisiana are out of electricity. /Periscope