Hurricane Ida is expected to exit the state sometime within the next hour after sulking across the southeastern portion of The Boot for over 12 hours. The system is still a hurricane, but much weaker now a category one after making landfall near Port Fourchon as a Category Four.
Power is out to over a million households and businesses in Louisiana right now, with the outlook bleak for a quick recovery. A transmission tower supplying New Orleans and the East Bank of Jefferson Parish is down and lines into far southeastern portions have been taken offline.
President Biden approved the state’s request for a President Major Disaster Declaration, saying the feds will be there to help the region get back on its feet, as long as it takes…
2.5 meals have been positioned to go out to needy communities.
In just a few hours those in Southeast Louisiana will wake up to survey damage from the historically powerful Hurricane Ida.
It’ll likely take the rest of the day to get a full accounting but already we know coastal communities were devastated, Laplace faced shockingly high levels of flooding, and the New Orleans Metro Area may be without power for an extended period. State Climatologist Barry Keim…
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Keim says and the rain totals stayed low and the federal levees we can be fairly sure we aren’t looking at devastation on the level we saw from Katrina…
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