Hurricane Ida Brings Heavy Flooding And Fierce Winds To Louisiana
Ida had sustained winds of 150 mph as it made landfall on Sunday, before the storm weakened slightly by evening. New Orleans and its surrounding areas have lost power entirely.
Updated August 29, 2021 at 10:23 PM ET
Hurricane Ida was causing catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding across sections of southern Louisiana as it came ashore Sunday as one of the strongest storms to ever hit the U.S.
More than 900,000 customers across Louisiana were without electricity on Sunday night, according to utility companies' reports tracked by PowerOutage.US.
Power was knocked out entirely in Orleans Parish by evening, as a result of "catastrophic damage" to Entergy New Orleans' transmission system, . With generators serving as New
