New Orleans was without power Sunday night as Hurricane Ida battered southeastern Louisiana on the sixteenth commemoration of Hurricane Katrina.
The city said the Entergy utility endured "calamitous" harm to a transmission line.
Ida pummeled the coastline Sunday as a Category 4 tempest, then, at that point debilitated to a Category 3 with 125 mph winds. The tempest is releasing harming wind blasts more than 80 mph in New Orleans, alongside flooding precipitation.
As the tempest charges inland, ruinous breezes and flooding precipitation could broaden in excess of 100 hundred miles through Baton Rouge.
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Ida made landfall at 12:55 p.m. close to Port Fourchon, La., tied for the most exceptional storm on record to strike Louisiana, with 150-mph winds.
Ida's flood has arrived at four to seven feet in southeastern Louisiana and beach front Mississippi, overwhelming streets, homes, organizations and marinas, and will test the New Orleans flood insurance framework, supported by a $14.5 billion speculation after Katrina.
The rooftop was passed over a south Louisiana medical clinic with patients inside, in an instinctive sign of how the tempest has crashed into an all around stressed wellbeing framework.
President Biden guaranteed Sunday to "put the nation's full weight" behind salvage and-recuperation endeavors and noticed that he marked crisis announcements for Louisiana and Mississippi ahead of time so that help could be "flooded."
Right around 1 million individuals in New Orleans and encompassing urban areas were put under a blaze flood cautioning through Sunday night, while a "hazardous" streak flood "crisis" was pronounced in certain networks south of New Orleans, close to the Mississippi River.
In excess of 700,000 clients have lost force in Louisiana, and specialists caution that far and wide blackouts could last weeks.
Tropical storm Ida took out capacity to New Orleans, the city said, after "calamitous" harm to a utility line.
Entergy New Orleans, the city's power provider, said its offices supported "calamitous transmission harm" from the hurricane, the city tweeted.
"The lone force in the city is coming from generators," New Orleans' Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness tweeted.
As indicated by a blackout tracker's 8:51 p.m. update, 764,605 families in the state were without power. In Orleans Parish, where New Orleans is found, 176,926 — addressing 91% of Entergy's clients — were note getting power.
Ida hammered shorewards close to Port Fourchon in southeast Louisiana at 12:55 p.m. Sunday as an amazing Category 4 tropical storm. At that point, its most extreme supported breezes were 150 mph.
Some early photographs and video from Port Fourchon, around 100 miles south of New Orleans, and Lafourche Parish, inside which it lives, show broad harm. Many homes had rooftops stripped off, dividers were impacted through sometimes, and a marina was overwhelmed.
Viral video showed the top of the Lady of the Sea General Hospital ripped off in Galliano, likewise in the area.
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