1At least 20 million people residing in the region will be affected by the cyclone and half a million who live in the most vulnerable areas have already been evacuated. DAN ANDERSON EFE 2Hundreds of evacuees from Hurricane Laura line up in their cars to receive hotel vouchers at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Bronte Wittpenn Reuters 3Victoria Nelson waits with her children Autum, Shawn and Asia to board a bus and thus evacuate Lake Charles, Louisiana. Gerald Herbert AP 4Tiara Walker holds her dog, Buece, as she waits with her family to board a bus and leave Galveston, Texas. David J. Phillip AP 5A girl walks towards her flooded house a day after the passage of 'Laura', in Port-au-Prince Haiti. Dieu Nalio Chery AP 6Floods during the cyclone in Port Prince, Haiti. Dieu Nalio Chery AP 7A group of firefighters await the arrival of Hurricane Laura in Port Arthur, Texas. Eric Gay AP 8 Cali Chase and Sawyer Cook, both 8 years old, play in the waves before the hurricane hits Galveston, Texas. Adrees Latif Reuters
Hurricane Laura, in pictures
2020-08-28T00:46:41.720Z
The National Hurricane Center of the United States has warned that the winds of the meteorological phenomenon would cause "catastrophic conditions in its wake" by causing severe flooding
