US Hurricanes

Spooked locals have admitted their shock at seeing a dinosaur-like reptile roaming freely around a golf course in Florida, where a tropical storm has provided ideal conditions for the creature to leave the water in search of food.

Hurricane Zeta has made landfall on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, lashing the area with heavy rains and winds of up to almost 130 kilometers per hour.

Nearly a half-million residents in Texas and Louisiana have been left without power after Hurricane Delta made landfall along the US gulf coast, battering cities with winds up to 80 miles per hour.

Hurricane Laura, which stormed through the US Gulf of Mexico at the end of August, forced shut-ins of an estimated 14.4 million barrels of crude oil during the two weeks of shut-down rigs.

The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned that Hurricane Teddy is expected to intensify further, potentially becoming a catastrophic and life-threatening Category 4 cyclone by Thursday.

Gulf of Mexico refiners have restarted production following a narrow miss from the devastating hurricane Laura.