The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center has Ida as a category 4 storm, with maximum sustained winds at 150 miles per hour, just seven miles shy of a category five, State Climatologist Barry Keim…
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Ida is located Ida is 100 miles southeast of Houma moving Northwest at 15 miles per hour. With landfall expected in the new few hours and expected to bring anywhere from 10 to 20 inches of rain to the state.
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Governor John Bel Edwards says Hurricane Ida could be the strongest storm to hit Louisiana since the 1850s. Ida is expected to make landfall in a matter of hours in Terrebonne Parish with 140 mile per hour winds and will continue to produce hurricane-force winds for at least another 100 miles as it moves north
The state’s largest healthcare system, Ochsner Health says they don’t plan on having to transfer any patients out of their hospitals ahead of Hurricane Ida. CEO Warner Thomas says they are prepared with water, fuel, and generators for the hurricane.
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