President Joe Biden pledges aid to help states quickly recover once Hurricane Ida passes
Forecasters said Ida could make a U.S. landfall on Sunday as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, generating winds of 140 miles per hour , heavy downpours and a tidal surge that could plunge much of the Louisiana shoreline under several feet of water.
"We're concerned about explosive development shortly before it makes landfall," said Jim Foerster, chief meteorologist at DTN, which provides weather advice to oil and transportation companies. “I left Fourchon last night at 8 o'clock and it's a ghost town,” said Andre LeBlanc, a sportfishing captain speaking from his inland home in Lafayette, Louisiana. “We were some of the last to get out of there.”Utilities were bringing in extra crews and equipment to deal with expected power losses. Hundreds of thousands of homes could fall dark as Ida's strong winds carry well into Louisiana and as far east at Mobile, Alabama, said DTN's Foerster.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, whose state is already reeling from a public health crisis stemming from a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Ida's winds will be fierce and spread across a 300-mile area.A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Ida after forming in the Caribbean, about 75 miles north-northwest of Grand Cayman, August 27, 2021. NOAA/via REUTERS"We have a very serious situation on our hands," Edwards said at a briefing.
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