Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 Storm
Source: New York Times
Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday as a Category 4 storm, battering the coast and threatening destruction in New Orleans as the storm stands to be one of the most devastating to strike the city since Hurricane Katrina.
The storms maximum sustained winds on Sunday morning reached 150 miles an hour, closing in on the 157 m.p.h. winds of a Category 5 storm. In New Orleans and across southeast Louisiana, residents were bracing themselves for the worst of the hurricane.
This is a major, major storm that is going to test us in ways that we have not been tested before, Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana said on CBSs Face the Nation on Sunday.
The storm has New Orleans directly in its path. On the citys streets Sunday morning, the wind whipped in fearsome gusts as strong as 70 miles an hour. There were few cars in motion, except for the occasional howling emergency vehicle. Downtown, a few homeless people tucked themselves into the porticos of buildings. But the people who remained in New Orleans had mostly hidden themselves away.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/29/us/hurricane-ida-updates/the-powerful-cyclone-batters-the-coast-with-wind-rain-and-storm-surge
BumRushDaShow
(127,271 posts)ancianita
(35,812 posts)Like a sustained tsunami.
localroger
(3,602 posts)Port Fourchon is going to have the crud knocked out of it, but that's mostly businesses with industrial structures that are prepared anyway. Here in Mandeville (across Lake Pontchartrain from NOLA) it's hardly even raining and winds are gusting maybe 20-30 MPH. I expect that to get worse, but not much worse and not for very long as the storm seems to be skirting the metro area. Houma is likely to take a bit of a pounding, but it's pretty far inland so probably not much surge, and depending on when the track recurves Baton Rouge might get a significant wind+rain event. As for the chicken little "hurricane's comin' we're all gonna DIE" refrain I'm really not seeing it here.
ancianita
(35,812 posts)I'm not seeing any chicken little panic, either. Still, NOLA will see a lot of rainwater damage all night long.