At a Glance

More than 400,000 homes and businesses were without power.The Capital One Tower in Lake Charles once again had gaping holes instead of windows.Storm surge inundated coastal areas.

Hundreds of thousands of people were without power after Hurricane Delta made landfall in Southwest Louisiana Friday night, knocking down trees and power lines, covering coastal areas with water and damaging some buildings.

Streets were also flooded in , and buildings, many already damaged by six weeks ago, were battered by Delta's wind and rain. Before the storm, boards covered sections of the exterior of the 22-story Capital One tower downtown, which became an enduring image of Laura after that storm blew out dozens of the building's windows. But later Friday, the tower was once again pockmarked by gaping holes.

Across the city, tarps draped on damaged roofs following Hurricane Laura were blown away by Delta's powerful gusts.

"I’m in a building right now with a tarp on it and just the sound of the tarp flapping on the building sounds like someone pounding with a sledgehammer on top of the building," Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter told the Associated Press. "It’s pretty intense."

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Video posted to social media showed downed utility poles and power lines in the city.

More than 301,000 homes and businesses were in Louisiana, and another 113,000 outages were being reported in Texas as of about 9 p.m. CDT, according to poweroutage.us.

Rain pounded inland areas as the storm moved across the state.

Rollie Cantu, police chief in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, told The Weather Channel late Friday night that his department had responded to a couple of rescue calls. One person was transported to the hospital after a tree fell on a trailer home, but the injuries were not life-threatening, Cantu said.

In Port Arthur, Texas, a semi truck blew over on Highway 73.

Delta made landfall near Creole, Louisiana, about 14 miles east of where Hurricane Laura came ashore in Cameron in August.

Officials advised residents to stay indoors and hunker down until further notice.

The Capital One tower in Lake Charles, Louisiana, was damaged in both Hurricane Laura on Aug. 27, 2020, and Hurricane Delta on Oct. 9, 2020.

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"The only advice I can give is just stay in your homes, don’t get out on the roads, even after the storm," Danny Semmes, the police chief in Jennings, Louisiana, just to the east of Lake Charles, told The Weather Channel.

Earlier, motorists became stranded in high water and there were reports of flooded homes in Baton Rouge.

There were about two dozen road closures due to high water Friday morning in Baton Rouge, according to emergency management. The city's airport reported 8 inches of rain overnight and a flash flood warning was issued by the National Weather Service.

Curt Monte, public information officer for the Baton Rouge Fire Department, told weather.com that crews responded to about 25 calls for assistance from motorists who were stuck in floodwaters.

"I can tell you it was mostly flooded out, stalled vehicles, people not obeying the 'turn around and don’t drown' message," Monte said.

WBRZ-TV reported that .

Just outside of Lake Charles, patients were evacuated from the West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital in Sulphur ahead of the storm. Patients were either being discharged or moved to other medical facilities , according to a news release.

At least five parishes had issued mandatory , including Calcasieu Parish, where Lake Charles is located, and Cameron Parish, where some areas are still under evacuation orders from Hurricane Laura. Traffic was for miles on Interstate 10 prior to the storm's arrival.

Officials were reminding people to be cautious when during power outages after the storm. Precautions include never running a generator inside or adjacent to a home or building. At least nine people in Louisiana died of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by improper use of generators after Hurricane Laura.

The aftermath of Hurricane Delta is seen Saturday Oct. 10, 2020, near Jennings, La. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP, Pool)

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