As Hurricane Ida rapidly intensified into a Category 4 storm threatening the Gulf Coast, residents of the area faced a difficult decision — to stay and ride out the storm, or to brave the clogged highways and hastily evacuate.
Hurricane Ida rapidly intensified into a Category 4 storm
Hurricane warnings are all too familiar to Gulf Coast residents who have lived through countless storms, but the severity of this one took some by surprise, leaving little time to prepare.On Friday evening, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards warned that Hurricane Ida was "changing, it seems, by the hour."
"My inclination is that there are two types of people who stay during a storm," Skylar Rubin, 34, said. "It's ones who have a generator and they know that they'll be OK. And then there's also the people that are just going to ride it out, no matter what." "We see hurricanes all the time coming through here, and by the time they get here they've dissipated," she said. "So you kind of get into a bad habit of saying, 'oh well, it's fine.' So to know that this could be a Category 4 is a little bit scary. It happened at the last minute, so my family, my pets, everybody is here. And where are we going to go? Hotel rooms are full, houses are full.
If there was a final factor that drove Spencer to hit the road, it was probably her diabetic cat whose insulin needs to be kept cold. The prospect of a power outage, and thus an inoperable refrigerator, was too much of a threat.Lifelong New Orleans resident Mary-Devon Dupuy, 32, also elected to evacuate to Birmingham, Alabama, because of her 5-month-old baby Oscar and a gut feeling.
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