Hurricane Ida made landfall Sunday in southeast Louisiana as a Category 4 storm and federal authorities reported 'catastrophic' damage in parts of the area. By early Sunday evening, Ida had weakened to a Category 3 storm, with sustained winds of 125 mph.
in some parts of southern Louisiana, Collin Arnold, director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, warned residents that emergency services wouldn't be able to reach them until Monday.
In preparation of Hurricane Ida, a worker attaches protective plywood to windows and doors of a business in the French Quarter in New Orleans on Aug. 28, 2021. of New Orleans published video of the roof being blown off Lady of the Sea Hospital in Galliano in Lafourche Parish. Officials in Jefferson Parish said a barge hit the Leo Kerner Bridge, a swing pony truss bridge over Bayou Barataria in Jean Lafitte. The bridge, which parish officials said they didn't believe was safe, was closed, the state Transportation Department said.that a parishwide curfew was in effect through dawn Monday., those who remain are bracing for the worst.
"And we've had 16 years to really protect our city from what occurred tragically on this date 16 years ago."
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