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Ida is expected to remain a hurricane overnight but weaken to a tropical storm by Monday afternoon. Residents of New Orleans prepare as the outer bands of the hurricane begin to cut across the city.įorecasters said Ida remained highly dangerous as it approached more populated areas already inundated with hours of rain. That figure closed in on 750,000-plus by early evening as it moved through Houma and headed toward New Orleans, where officials urged calm for those who chose to not to evacuate.Ī person walks through New Orleans' French Quarter ahead of Hurricane Ida. By then, power was out to more than 300,000 homes and businesses in the state, according to the tracking website. A short time later it made a second landfall a few miles to the north, near Galliano. The storm first crashed ashore near Port Fourchon, less than 100 miles south of New Orleans. “It’s awful over there and it’s going to be a long time before things get back to normal." “I really feel for those people in Houma and Thibodeaux,” he said. Standing outside his front door, watching the strongest winds of the day whip through his city, Nuwer said his thoughts were elsewhere. Nuwer said he knew people in Bayou Gauche whose neighbors saw their roof torn off. Comprehensive damage estimates won't happen until daybreak.

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Instead, Nuwer said he worried for those further south where Ida had brought its full force earlier in the day. “It’s about the same as Hurricane Zeta,” Nuwer said, referring to the 2020 hurricane that was the strongest to hit New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. He said it was strange seeing the street so empty, but that he had seen stronger storms in his 31 years of living in the city. Half a block away, Michael Nuwer sat at home with his candles lit. He had spent the morning gathering supplies but said the storm “ain’t that bad.” Josh Pedigo, a 50-year-old local bartender, watched the storm from his porch in Mid City.

For longtime New Orleans residents, the storm wasn’t anything they hadn’t seen before. Pieces of the street’s iconic oaks lay in dark heaps in the middle of the road. Sunday evening in New Orleans’ Mid City, the usually lively Esplanade Avenue was empty of cars and devoid of light save for the few houses where generators kept the power alive. Late Sunday, the National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning for Central Jefferson Parish in southeastern Louisiana, saying local law enforcement reported a failing levee in the Lafitte and Jean Lafitte areas, with 200 people endangered. The howling winds peeled off the roof of the 25-bed Lady of the Sea General Hospital in Galliano, Louisiana, although authorities said no one was hurt. The company said it was providing emergency power to the city's Sewerage and Water Board but that residents should not expect electricity to be restored overnight. "Due to catastrophic transmission damage, all of Orleans Parish is currently without power," utility company Entergy texted customers. Shortly after 7 p.m., the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness confirmed the city had lost power.

Geological Survey.Īs it was downgraded early Monday to a tropical, its maximum winds dropped to 60 mph 7, and centered 95 miles south-southwest of Jackson, Mississippi Its storm surge submerged cars, flooded streets and temporarily reversed the Mississippi River's flow near Belle Chase, according to preliminary data from the U.S. mainland - also snapped trees and flipped over trucks. Ida's winds when it came ashore - it's tied for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the U.S. "Thousands of our people are without power and there is untold damage to property across the impacted parishes."Įdwards said President Joe Biden officially declared Ida a disaster, releasing federal funds to assist with rescue and recovery efforts, which will begin in earnest Monday morning. John Bel Edwards said in a statement late Sunday. "Tonight, we have confirmed at least one death and sadly, we know there will be others," Louisiana Gov.