Not less than fourteen people were killed in Hurricane Laura which hit across the southern United States of Louisiana and Texas.

Louisiana’s Governor, John Bel Edwards made the confirmation that about ten people had died in his state, half from using carbon monoxide-producing portable generators indoors in the aftermath of the storm making landfall.

The governor said that four of the remaining deaths were caused by trees falling on people’s homes, while a man drowned after his boat sank in the storm.

According to the site Poweroutage.us., there were 464,813 customers without power in Louisiana on Friday. Texas ended up being spared the brunt of the hurricane, which has since reduced significantly. Three of the state’s four deaths were also allegedly due to carbon monoxide poisoning from generators.

The homeless victims had sought shelter in a pool hall in the southeastern town of Port Arthur and carried its generator inside, the Beaumont Enterprise said.

It was gathered that on Friday morning, a man died in East Texas; although it is unconfirmed that he was a direct victim of the hurricane. The CBS affiliate for East Texas said the man was killed when a tree fell on his mobile home in Hemphill.