DARK DAY

Zeta Kills at Least Two People and Leaves Over a Million With No Power

In the early hours, the former hurricane barrelled its way through central Alabama to reach the Florida Panhandle and Georgia.

Zeta’s howling winds and storm surges have left at least two people dead and plunged well over a million people into darkness, according to reports. Zeta made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 storm Wednesday afternoon but it weakened to a tropical storm Thursday. In the early hours, the storm barrelled its way through central Alabama to reach the Florida Panhandle and Georgia. The National Hurricane Center said: “The center of Zeta will move across portions of the southeastern U.S. this morning, across the Mid-Atlantic states this afternoon, and emerge over the western Atlantic by tonight.” One 55-year-old man died after being electrocuted by a downed power line in Louisiana, according to CNN. Another storm-related death was reported in Biloxi, Mississippi.