'It's a terrifying feeling,' said Robert Owens, who couldn't afford to evacuate from his Baton Rouge neighborhood before Ida's onslaught.
Robert Owens is a resident of a low-income Baton Rouge neighborhood in Louisiana where the majority of residents couldn't afford to evacuate in anticipation of Hurricane Ida, the Associated Press reported. Owens, 27, and his family instead had to shelter in place during one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the country.
"There people who have funds to lean on are able to get out of here, but there's a big chunk of people that are lower-income that don't have a savings account to fall on," he continued."We're left behind."Many members of a Baton Rouge neighborhood in Louisiana were forced to shelter in place during Hurricane Ida's onslaught because they lacked the money to evacuate, according to one resident.
More than 1 million customers in Louisiana lost power overnight Sunday into Monday, according to PowerOutage.US, which tracks outages nationwide. Earlier in the day, Owens said he was hurriedly placing towels under leaking windows in his duplex and charging electronics. He tried to go to Dollar General and Dollar Tree to pick up food, but they were closed. His family had lights glued around the walls of the house. They planned to hide in the laundry room or the kitchen when the storm hit — places without windows.
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