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A girl wades towards her flooded home the day after the passing of Tropical Storm Laura in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. One of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the US, Laura barreled across Louisiana on Thursday, shearing off roofs, killing a least six people and maintaining ferocious strength while carving a destructive path hundreds of miles inland. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Water covers land after the passage of Hurricane Laura, Thursday Aug. 27, 2020, in Cameron, La. A full assessment of the damage wrought by the Category 4 system was likely to take days. But initial reports offered hope that Laura, despite leaving entire neighborhoods in ruins and more than 8,75,000 people without power, was not the annihilating menace that forecasters had feared. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP, Pool)
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Sugar cane is bent over after the passage of Hurricane Laura, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, near Lafayette, La. The hurricane’s top wind speed of 150 mph (241 kph) put it among the strongest systems on record in the US. Not until 11 hours after landfall did Laura finally weaken into a tropical storm as it plowed north and thrashed Arkansas. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP, Pool)
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Martin Almanza paddles a canoe through some street flooding following landfall of Hurricane Laura on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020 in Galveston, Texas. The storm came ashore in low-lying Louisiana and clobbered Lake Charles, an industrial and casino city of 80,000 people. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Buildings and homes are flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, near Lake Charles, La. Laura hit the US after killing nearly two dozen people on the island of Hispaniola, including 20 in Haiti and three in the Dominican Republic, where it knocked out power and caused intense flooding. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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Benjamin Luna helps recover items from the children’s wing of the First Pentecostal Church that was destroyed by Hurricane Laura, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Orange, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Residents walk through flood water on Chemin Metairie Parkway following Hurricane Laura Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Lafayette, La. (Leslie Westbrook/The Advocate via AP)
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Hollie Moore walks through debris at her home on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Lake Charles, La., in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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A man rides a bicycle among fallen trees along Holly Hill Rd., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Lake Charles, La., in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. (Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Buildings are damaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, near Lake Charles, La. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)