Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category Four hurricane near Port Fouchon and now it’s a tropical storm in southwestern Mississippi, but it left a path of destruction across southeast Louisiana. State Climatologist Barry Keim says it wasn’t until the center of Ida reached Mississippi that it lost its hurricane status…
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Once the sun comes up, water rescues will take place. There are reports of hundreds of people stranded in lower in Jefferson Parish. In St Charles Parish, families are in their attic in LaPlace to get away from flood waters. There are reports of roofs torn off of Ochsner hospitals in Houma and Raceland and patients there will have to be evacuated to other facilities.

President Joe Biden vows to put the country’s “full might” behind rescue and recovery efforts in southeast Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Ida.

Biden says they’ve pre-positioned a number of federal assets including 2.5 million meals and three million liters of water. He says they have generators in place and are in contact with power companies…
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The New Orleans region suffered “catastrophic” damage to the power grid, losing a transmission tower and all eight transmission lines serving New Orleans and the east bank of Jefferson Parish.

Entergy spokesperson David Freese says they beefed up personnel before the storm arrived…
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Governor Edwards says there will be 30-thousand linemen in the state to restore the power.