UPDATE: Hurricane Ida upgrades to Cat 2 storm as Louisiana residents urged to finish preparations. 'If you are under evacuation order or can leave, PLEASE LEAVE. DEVASTATING conditions WILL happen,' the National Weather Service warns.
was upgraded Saturday afternoon to a Category 2 as it continues its path across the Gulf of Mexico toward coastal Louisiana."We once again stress that if you are under evacuation order or can leave, PLEASE LEAVE. DEVASTATING conditions WILL happen," the agency tweeted.
New Orleans could take a particularly bad hit. On Friday, Mayor LaToya Cantrell ordered mandatory evacuations for residents in low-lying areas outside of the city's levee system. She had also called for voluntary evacuations inside the levee system. "We do not want to have people on the road, and therefore in greater danger,” the mayor said at a news conference Friday, according toMichael Richard of Creole Cuisine Restaurant Concepts boards up Crescent City Pizza on Bourbon Street on August 28, 2021.Cantrell said that people who live outside of the levees should get out as soon as possible and reiterated that those inside the levee system are safe.Gov.
He added that the administration has already pre-positioned food, water, generators and other supplies.
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