Hurricane Ida continues its slow, devastating creep across Louisiana, with the eyewall closing in on LaPlace.
Despite Ida’s historic power officials are confident the federal levee systems surrounding the Greater New Orleans Area will hold. Governor John Bel Edwards says that region is more protected than ever before.
This advance has left about 650 thousand customers without power across southeast Louisiana. Entergy reports nearly the entire City of New Orleans has gone dark after the area suffered “catastrophic transmission damage”. Across Plaquemine, Terrebonne, and LaFourche Parishes nearly all customers are without power and power is rapidly fading in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa.
Despite making “landfall” earlier today Ida is still a robust category three hurricane with sustained winds of 115 miles per hour. State Climatologist Barry keim says that’s because the system made landfall in the waterlogged southeastern marshlands…
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Ida is forecast to move past LaPlace and into Livingston Tangipahoa Parishes around 10 PM tonight.