Nearly one week on, Louisiana is struggling to recover from Hurricane Ida’s devastating blow.
President Joe Biden got a firsthand look at the damage and promised to leave no community behind.
President Joe Biden, aboard the Marine One helicopter, inspects the damage from Hurricane Ida on an aerial tour of communities in Laffite, Grand Isle, Port Fourchon and Lafourche Parish, La., September 3, 2021.four nursing home residents who were transferred to a warehouse for the hurricane and later diedThe coroner determined three of the deaths to be storm-related, though the residents' definitive causes of death have not been confirmed.
The probe will look into who decided to move the patients to “this apparently unsafe and potentially inappropriate facility,” who later “turned away career staff members of the LDH when they attempted to look into this situation” and"why did the police chief and the sheriff state an investigation was not needed."
He pledged to help with financial assistance and said the government has already distributed $100 million directly to individuals in the state through $500 checks to get them on their feet.Vanessa Curtis Nosetti charges her phone with others at a charging station set up off a generator at Mayhew Bakery as power continues to be out in most of the city after hurricane Ida ripped through the state, in New Orleans, Sept. 1, 2021.
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