The US coast guard office in New Orleans received more than a dozen reports of breakaway barges. In New Orleans, wind tore at awnings and caused buildings to sway and water to spill from Lake Ponchartrain.
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But we believe that system is going to hold, the entire integrity of that system will be able to withstand the storm surge.” This will be the most severe test of that system. The National Weather Service (NWS) in New Orleans tweeted a long list of flooded streets and advised residents to shelter in place and avoid all unnecessary travel.Īlthough Ida arrived with more powerful winds and expected rainfall than Katrina, forecast storm surge of a life-threatening 15ft was expected to be less than in 2005 when Katrina brought highs of 20ft, leading to catastrophic failure of levees in New Orleans.Įdwards said he was confident the levees would hold, as “there’s been tremendous investment in this system since Hurricane Katrina. The Lefourche parish sheriff told residents who evacuated that while they may be anxious to return, “today is not that day”.
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The state health department said a small number of patients would be evacuated once it was safe to do so. Lady of the Sea general hospital in Lafourche parish reported extensive roof damage. Hospitals in New Orleans, overrun with Covid-19 patients before the storm hit the city, have been relying on generators. The city relies on Entergy for backup power for the pumps that remove storm water from city streets. The message included a screen shot that cited “catastrophic transmission damage”. The power supplier to New Orleans, Entergy, confirmed late on Sunday that the only power in the city was coming from generators, the city’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness said. New Orleans police detective Alexander Reiter looks over debris from a building that collapsed during Hurricane Ida. In a tweet on Monday morning, Louisiana’s governor, John Bel Edwards, said it was clear that the storm had “left many hazards across Louisiana, including flooded roadways, debris and downed power lines”.
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“As soon as the storm passes we’re going to put the country’s full might behind the rescue and recovery,” he told reporters. It was expected to move into central and north-eastern Mississippi before hitting the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday.Īfter approving federal disaster declarations for Louisiana and Mississippi on Saturday, Joe Biden appeared at Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) headquarters in Washington on Sunday afternoon. The storm was centered about 95 miles south-south-west of Jackson, Mississippi, moving north at 8mph. Forecasters said it would rapidly weaken while dumping torrential rain over a large area. Early on Monday its top sustained wind was 60mph. Ida reduced in strength as it crawled inland, becoming a tropical storm again 16 hours after landfall. Ida’s 150mph winds tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland US. Ida – a category 4 storm – hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005, coming ashore about 45 miles west of where category 3 Katrina first struck land. “We’ve never seen one like this, it’s the worst storm in our history,” the Lafitte mayor, Tim Kerner Jr, later told WGNO TV.
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Another levee in Lafitte and Jean Lafitte had been topped, but it did not have any structural damage. Residents of Alliance, 20 miles south of New Orleans, were told to evacuate after a levee failure. Boil-water notices were issued in some areas. Hundreds of thousands were without refrigeration in sweltering heat and were told to conserve water after sewage pumping stations, which have no back-up power, ground to a halt.
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The outage in New Orleans left the city more vulnerable to flooding – 16 years after Hurricane Katrina caused devastation. The first death was reported in Prairieville, a suburb of Baton Rouge, after a tree fell on a house, said the sheriff of Ascension parish.Īcross Louisiana, more than a million households were without power.