“We feel very good about what is inside the hurricane risk reduction system,” John Bel Edwards said.
A car is parked on the Mississippi River levee just down river from New Orleans as Hurricane Ida arrives into Louisiana on Sunday. | Chris Granger/The Advocate via APWith Hurricane Ida expected to make landfall Sunday, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says his state's $14 billion levy system should hold against the storm.
"We have lesser systems of protection built along the coast, where the levees aren't as high and they're not as fortified and we're very concerned there. This will be a tremendous test of those systems. Quite frankly, it will be the strongest test we've had yet for the current hurricane and storm risk reduction system itself."
"All of our modeling shows that the most populous parts of southeast Louisiana, inside that system, are going to be protected from storm surge. You still have wind threat and rain threat as well," he added. "But it's really south along the coast. We think an awful lot of people did evacuate, but this is a very difficult storm."
"This will be a real challenge, too," Edwards said. "The good news is — and it's relative — over the last 10 days, we've been able to reduce our net inpatient census by about 500, most of that in southeast Louisiana. So we did create a little bit of additional capacity."
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