hurricane Francine left hundreds of thousands without power and caused widespread flooding in Louisiana as it made landfall in Morgan City as a category 2 storm Francine weakened into a post-tropical cyclone as it moved North across Mississippi soaking that state and its neighbors in heavy rain after it slammed into the Louisiana coast as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane it was tracking over Central Mississippi by the early evening as the system moved Inland Cru began clearing roads and restoring electricity while neighborhoods and businesses started cleaning up the mess there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries Louisiana governor Jeff Landry said at one point around 500 people were in Emergency Shelters State officials said the amount of money invested in resilience has really made a difference from the power outages to the number of homes saved said Dean Criswell the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management agency who attended the governor's news conference New Orleans was inundated with 186 mm of rain about three times the amount of rain 60 mm it receives on average in September according to the National Weather Service the storm knocked out electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses and threatened widespread flooding as it sent a potentially deadly storm surge rushing Inland along the Gulf Coast but Francine quickly lost much of its punch as it moved over land and it was initially downgraded to a tropical storm more than 149,000 customers were without power across Louisiana down from a peak of more than 450,000 according to the Public Service Commission Francine continued to weaken with maximum sustained winds dropping according to the National Hurricane Center the National Hurricane Center said Francine would continue bringing the threat of heavy rainfall and tornadoes to portions of the Mississippi Delta Alabama Western Georgia and the Florida Panhandle