For residents of the Gulf Coast still piecing together homes and lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura, Friday’s latest storm to batter the area was an unwelcome sign.

On Saturday, 2,500 National Guard members were dispatched to parts of Louisiana after Tropical Storm Delta brought torrents of rain and left more than half a million people without power.

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