Texas Tribune | Weather

"We really dodged a bullet," Beaumont official says, as Hurricane Laura downgraded to Category 2

Cassandra Pollock and Julián Aguilar Texas Tribune
Posted 8/27/20

The storm moved ashore just east of the Texas-Louisiana line around midnight Thursday. The National Hurricane Center warned that both states could experience massive devastation from storm surge and wind damage.

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