Video shows Hurricane Laura’s overwhelming winds ripping the windows off of the Capital One Tower – an all-glass office building that dominates the skyline in Lake Charles, La., where the storm caused massive damage.
It shows windows flying off the face of the building as the whipping wind howls in the darkness.
Photographs taken after sunrise showed gaping holes and broken glass where the windows should have been. Hurricane Rita also damaged the building in 2005 and it went through years of renovations that included “ballistic protection” for the external glass panels, according to the architecture firm that handled the repairs.
Tornadoes were possible from central and eastern Arkansas into Mississippi through Thursday evening, according to the weather service.
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