Photos: Hurricane Ida strikes New Orleans on deadly path through Louisiana
Hurricane Ida made landfall on the same day when 16 years ago, Hurricane Katrina had ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi. Its 150 mph (230 kph) winds tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland. More than a million customers in Louisiana and Mississippi were without power according to PowerOutage.us. President Joe Biden said the nation was praying for people caught in the storm and would put its “full might behind the rescue and recovery” effort once Ida passes. He said the Federal Emergency Management Agency would stay and help for “as long as it takes.”
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A satellite image shows Hurricane Ida in the Gulf of Mexico on August 29. Hurricane Ida pummeled New Orleans and the Louisiana coast overnight with lashing rain and ferocious gusts, leaving much of the region without electricity and bracing for widespread floods.(European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-3 Imagery, Processed by DG DEFIS via REUTERS)
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Rain batters N Peters Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, with St. Louis Cathedral visible in the distance on August 29. The storm, wielding some of the most powerful winds ever to hit the state, drove a wall of water inland when it thundered ashore on August 29 as a Category 4 hurricane and reversed the course of part of the Mississippi River, Bloomberg reported.(Patrick T Fallon / AFP)
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Montegut and Bourg firefighters cut through trees on the road in Bourg, Louisiana as Hurricane Ida passes on August 29. Ida struck New Orleans on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the costliest tropical cyclone in US history that left much of the city in ruins.(Mark Felix / AFP)
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Montegut fire chief Toby Henry walks back to his fire truck in the rain in Bourg, Louisiana on August 29. The storm was responsible for at least one death, as the Louisiana health department said a man in Ascension Parish was killed when a tree fell on his home.(Mark Felix / AFP)
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