Hurricane Ida made landfall shortly before noon today as a Category Four hurricane near Port Fourchon. Here’s how it sounded….
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In Terrebonne, Parish President Gordon Dove describes what he’s experienced so far.
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According to the National Hurricane Center, Ida is now passing just east of Houma, with maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour. The eye of the storm is about 40 miles southwest of New Orleans. But U-S Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson Matt Roe says the 130-mile ring of levees to protect the New Orleans metro area should hold up to Ida…
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The state is reporting 15-hundred people are sheltered statewide in 23 different shelters. Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services Secretary Marketa Garner Walters says to find a shelter, dial 2-1-1 or text L-A-shelter to 898-211. Walters also encourages evacuees to check with local government officials…
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Governor John Bel Edwards some of the state’s most vulnerable residents have also been evacuated out of harm’s way….
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Ochsner says all of their hospitals and emergency departments across the region remain open and they are also fully staffed at all of their facilities.