Rising waters threatened homes and businesses in communities along the Louisiana coast as Tropical Storm Francine lashed the area with heavy rain and intense winds.
“This storm is definitely packing a punch,” said Hollie Fabregas, who lives in Houma, La., about 45 miles southwest of New Orleans. “She really is. I think it’s definitely more than what we thought she was going to be.”
By sunset on Tuesday, her home had lost power as the rain blew sideways, Ms. Fabregas said in a phone interview. She was one of more than 300,000 customers in Louisiana who lost power because of Francine.
But Ms. Fabregas did not pull out her generator right away. After all, she had been through bad storms before, like Ida.
Still, after Francine hit land as a Category 2 hurricane, she was deeply worried about Chauvin — a community about 15 miles southeast of Houma — where she works as the lodging manager at CoCo Marina, a destination for food, lodging and fishing.
Ms. Fabregas, 50, left the marina on Tuesday, but said she was helplessly watching the video from its security cameras as water roared through.
“It’s heartbreaking,” she said. “We love it down there. Now it’s just like, please God, save it. Like, just stop.”
Her office, like much of the marina, sits on stilts about six feet above the ground. But that may not be enough to protect it: On Wednesday evening, Ms. Fabregas could see through the cameras that the water was lapping dangerously at the office door.
“It’s getting there,” she said. “If this wind keeps blowing in, it’s not good.”
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