Camille. Katrina. Andrew. Ida has quickly earned a place in hurricane history among these. How it compares:
By Friday, more than a dozen deaths had been blamed on the storm in Gulf states. Researchers are still pulling together rainfall reports and gathering data from storm sensors strung out along the coast. Ida's minimum sea level pressure also earned it a spot in historic hurricane records. It's second only to Katrina for pressure in a landfalling hurricane in Louisiana. Katrina holds the record at 920 millibars.
in Waveland, just east of the Louisiana state line, with an incredible combination of 175-mph winds and a 24.6-foot storm tide.“My family lost a home,” Rafferty said. He was relieved that his Gulf-front hometown escaped the worst of Ida's winds, even though the community was still feeling the effects of winds and rain more than 24 hours later.
Both Ida and Katrina received much of their strength from a rapid intensification cycle while moving over over the Gulf Loop Current, an eddy of very warm and deep water in the Gulf. The extent of the wind fields help drive storm surge, which combines with large battering waves and tides to batter coastal areas. Katrina's massive storm surge was blamed for most of the more than 1,800 lives lost after the storm.
If Laura had made landfall a few miles further west, it would have sent a larger, more damaging surge into Lake Charles. As it was, the National Hurricane Center estimated Laura caused $19 billion in damage and claimed 47 lives. One official in Port Fourchon estimated Ida's surge there at between 12 to 15 feet, again far lower than the 28 feet Katrina pushed into Waveland, Mississippi.
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