Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards this afternoon toured areas hit by Hurricane Delta.
The governor said Hurricane Delta made landfall pretty much as the National Hurricane Center had predicted it, "only 12 miles from where Hurricane Laura made landfall."
Many of the homes and buildings in the path of Hurricane Delta were already damaged by Laura six weeks ago.
Gov. Edwards said insurance companies are only allowed one hurricane deductible per calendar year, so homeowners will not have to pay another deductible for their Hurricane Delta-related claims, if they also filed a claim for damages caused by Hurricane Laura.
"While this storm wasn't as powerful as Hurricane Laura, it was a very powerful storm," said Edwards. "One of the challenges we're going to have is distinguishing between the damage that was caused by Hurricane Laura and that which was caused overnight by Hurricane Delta."
Gov. Edwards almost 10,000 people are in shelters now, but more than half are people still out of their homes because of Hurricane Laura. More than 500,000 power outages were caused by Delta, said Edwards, more outages than were caused by Hurricane Laura.
The governor said there is some good news: the weather forecast is expected to be dry for the next several days, and the weather is expected to get cooler.