U.S president Joe Biden warned those in the region to stay
alert throughout the storm. U.S weather
forecasters have warned that the storm approaching Louisiana could be more
powerful than Hurricane Katrina which devastated New Orleans 16 years ago ida
is expected to make landfall in the next few hours evacuation orders are in a place for large areas of the state. Tens of thousands of people are on the move to get to safer areas neda taffy
reports from new Orleans.
The region is bracing for the landfall of could be the strongest storm to hit Louisiana in more than a century locked down moved
everything blows away filled up all the
vehicles in the freezer have case way without power. Evacuation of the city's 390 thousand
residents two days ago the storm was a tropical depression of time is closing
it is rapidly closing and the storm out and because the weather will start to
deteriorate very quickly it's expected to bring winds as high as 130 miles per hour a storm surge as high as 15 feet in areas and extreme flash flooding
conditions that could threaten life communities and key infrastructure memories
of the pain of hurricane Katrina still, haunt the city the failure of federal
levees left 80 percent of new Orleans. The United States comes exactly 16 years
after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the gulf coast more than home to millions of
Americans the area is an industrial hub with three ports.
The storm killed more than 1800 people and left millions homeless and along the gulf coast officials stress that the city's hurricane protections have vastly improved since then ida hits at full strength it will be a significant test of that system. Large areas of the state extremely dangerous hurricane wheel of storms swirling about an eye the center of the storm and symmetrical that shield of cloud is around the eye that means it's an ideal textbook hurricane it's flourished over the warm waters of the gulf. The governor says the most populated areas should be protected from storm surges following a 14 billion dollar investment in the years since the Katrina hurricane a smashed into Cuba.
Tropical Depression #Ida Advisory 19: Ida Becomes a Tropical Depression Over Mississippi. Heavy Rainfall and Flash Flooding Threat Continues to Spread Inland. https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 30, 2021
A storm surge of 4 meters or more in the worst area and 2
to 500 millimeters of rain brought by this storm as it moves across the region here, it is the point of impact as it reaches
the mouth of the Mississippi River and the winds swirling around it also push
that mound of water the storm surge up to four meters at the worst the storm is going to roar ashore and then
move northwards humid part of the world.
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