Hurricane Ida was expected to make landfall in the United States on Sunday as an 'extremely dangerous' Category 4 storm that could plunge much of the Louisiana shoreline under water as the state grapples with a COVID-19 surge already taxing hospitals.
Storm surge, flooding rains to reach inland communities
Southern Louisiana is still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Laura from a year ago. The state also has the third-highest incidence of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the U.S over the past seven days. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said on Saturday that the storm could be the state's worst direct hit by a hurricane since the 1850s.
"The implications of having a Category 4 storm while hospitals are full are beyond what we normally contemplate," Edwards said at a news conference Saturday afternoon.A man lifts a sheet of plywood at a Home Depot store in preparation for Hurricane Ida, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. August 28, 2021. REUTERS/Marco BelloThere were more than 3,400 new infections reported on Friday, and about 2,700 people are hospitalized with the virus.
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