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Hurricane Laura Now A Category 4 Storm, May Bring ‘Unsurvivable’ Surge To Gulf Coast

Emily Zanotti
Hurricane Laura Now A Category 4 Storm, May Bring ‘Unsurvivable’ Surge To Gulf Coast
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Hurricane Laura is quickly gaining speed as she moves across the Gulf Coast, the Weather Channel reports, opening up the possibility that Laura could become a category 4 — or even a category 5 — hurricane before she makes her projected landfall somewhere between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas.

The Weather Channel has labeled Laura’s inevitable strike, “potentially catastrophic,” and Fox News reports that the storm could bring with it a record-breaking, potentially “unsurvivable” storm surge to much of the Gulf Coast before it even touches land.

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