Zeta Makes Landfall In Louisiana As Category 2 Storm

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Zeta has crashed ashore in storm-weary Louisiana as a powerful Category 2 storm. Zeta’s landfall on Wednesday afternoon struck the latest blow of an extraordinarily busy Atlantic tropical storm season to a stretch of the U.S. Gulf Coast. The Miami-based hurricane center says a hurricane hunter aircraft confirmed at 4 p.m. Wednesday that the menacing storm had made landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana.  The fast-moving storm came ashore on the southern Louisiana coastline in a region of the Gulf Coast that has already been in the crosshairs of earlier storms this season.