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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida knocked out power to all of New Orleans and inundated coastal Louisiana communities on a deadly path through the Gulf Coast that is still unfolding and promises more destruction. Weather officials say it made landfall Sunday packing 150 mph winds.
Forecasters warned of damaging winds, heavy rainfall that could cause flash floods and life-threatening storm surge as Ida continued its rampage Monday through southeastern Louisiana and then into Mississippi.
It made landfall on the same day 16 years earlier that Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi. Its winds tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland.
Hurricane Ida has been downgraded to Category 3, but is still pounding parts of southeastern Louisiana with 125 mph winds, "catastrophic storm … and flash flooding," the National Hurricane Center said. https://t.co/ZxjZRvHtTQ
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Ida was already blamed for at least one death in Louisiana.
Stunning video taken from inside the eye of #Ida this morning by the NESDIS Ocean Winds Research team during a flight on the @NOAA_HurrHunter P3 aircraft @NOAASatellites pic.twitter.com/sjt970Yeiq
— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 29, 2021
Remnants of Ida are expected to bring heavy rainfall to the Tri-State Tuesday night into Thursday morning.
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