Junk In The Trunk Store after Hurricane Francine
Francine weakened into a tropical depression Thursday morning over south-central Mississippi, soaking that state and its neighbors in heavy rain after it slammed into the Louisiana coast Wednesday evening as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane. It was tracking over central Mississippi by the early afternoon.
The storm knocked out electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses and threatened widespread flooding as it sent a potentially deadly storm surge rushing inland along the Gulf Coast. But Francine quickly lost much of its punch as it moved over land, and it was initially downgraded to a tropical storm late Wednesday night.
More than 328,000 customers were without power across Louisiana Thursday afternoon, with Mississippi and Alabama reporting some 30,000 outages each, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us.