Hurricane Laura is scary, risk of catastrophe in the south of the USA

Hurricane Laura is increasingly scary and now there are fears that it could cause a real catastrophe in the southern United States. Laura has strengthened to category 3 (out of 5) as she approaches the American coast, where she is expected to hit Texas and Louisiana in the night: she already has 185 km / h winds and could reach gusts of 209 km / h. In the next few hours, however, it should strengthen further and become category 4: at that point it would be "potentially catastrophic" for the two southern states, causing damage and economic losses that, according to analysts' estimates, could reach 20-25 billion dollars. . For experts, those who live in the areas that Laura should touch there is no other solution than to evacuate, regardless of worries about the coronavirus. So much so that 600,000 people have already been ordered to abandon their homes in areas along the Gulf coast: this is the largest evacuation in the US during the pandemic. The areas most at risk are those on the Texas-Louisiana border, including the Texan cities of Beaumont, Galveston, Port Arthur, and the parishes of Calcasieu and Cameron, in southwestern Louisiana, where forecasters said the hurricane could drown entire communities.