Ida arrived in Louisiana. From a hurricane to a Category 4 storm on Sunday, with winds over 150 kilometers per hour, but with peaks above 200. It ranks fifth among the strongest hurricanes that have ever hit the United States. There are a million people without electricity in all of Louisiana including the city of New Orleans which in these days remembers the sixteenth anniversary of the Katrina tragedy that destroyed the city and caused the death of over 1,800 people.
The winds are very strong.
These too can cause enormous damage as happened last year with Hurricane Laura, also in Louisiana. In Gulf of Mexico the speed of the winds of the hurricane reached 240 kilometers per hour. On the mainland, the gusts are at 155 kilometers per hour with heavy rains.
The city has an enhanced levee system compared to 2005, but the fear is that the rains, up to 50 centimeters in the forecast, may be too heavy for the underground sewer and surface channels. A rise of up to 5 meters of waterways and the sea in the coastal part of the state is possible.
Per New Orleansdue to the rapid growth of the hurricane, it was not possible to issue an order for the total expulsion of the inhabitants. Mayor LaToya Cantrell asked residents to stay indoors, in the safest rooms, sheltered and windowless areas, and called for a curfew to be respected.
President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency for Louisiana and Mississippi. Safe shelters should be opened and 2.5 million meals and three million liters of water distributed. There is also the problem of the hospitals already occupied by the many sufferers of Covid. Louisiana is one of the states with the lowest vaccine rate, 41%, and there are about 2,700 people hospitalized in serious condition. The first victim of the hurricane is in the Baton Rouge area, the capital of Louisiana, where one person died from a tree fall.
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