Hurricane Ida hit the state of Louisiana with winds of 230 kilometers per hour

Rising ocean waters cleared barriers at Grand Isle as the meteor made landfall a short distance west of Port Fourchon. Ida made landfall for the second time about two hours later near Galliano. The hurricane was moving through the swamps of the southern tip of Louisiana, before continuing its journey to New Orleans and Baton Rouge, an area that is home to more than two million people.

“It’s not the storm that we usually have. It’s much stronger than what we usually see and honestly, if we were to chart the worst possible path for a hurricane in Louisiana, it would be very similar to this. that we see, ”he said. Governor John Bel Edwards.

Los inhabitantes de Luisiana despertaron en medio de una tormenta monumental después de que los Véos de Ida aumentaron su velocidad 72 km / h en cuestión de cinco horas a medida que el huracán avanzaba sobre algunas de las aguas oceánicas más cálidas del del del mundo en el norte Gulf of Mexico.

Winds ripped the awnings near Lake Ponchartrain in New Orleans before noon this Sunday. The authorities noted that the rapid reinforcement of Ida, which in three days went from a storm to a category 3 hurricane, did not allow time to organize a compulsory evacuation of the 390,000 inhabitants of the city. Mayor LaToya Cantrell called on residents to voluntarily leave the area. Those who remained were warned to prepare for prolonged power outages in the intense heat.

“The time is right. Heed all warnings. Make sure you take shelter in place. Protect yourself,” the mayor said at a press conference.

Along with the oil industry, Ida threatens a region still facing a Covid-19 rally due to the combination of low vaccination rates and the highly contagious delta variant.

Hospitals in New Orleans had planned to weather the storm at near full capacity, as hospitals elsewhere, under similar pressure from the coronavirus pandemic, had little room for evacuated patients. And shelters for people fleeing their homes posed an additional risk of becoming hotbeds of infection.