Hurricane Ida degrades to a Tropical Storm and leaves Louisiana in its wake.
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Ida moves into the U.S. interior like a dangerous Tropical Storm, with maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour (45 miles) and threats of storm surge, after devastating like a powerful hurricane Louisiana, where it left at least one dead and more than a million customers without power.
The system is moving north at 13 kilometers per hour (8 miles per hour) after causing destruction in homes, offices and hospitals and severe flooding and storm surge primarily in southern Louisiana and also in Mississippi.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC, in English) detailed this Monday in its most recent bulletin that a faster movement to the northeast is expected in the coming hours.
“The threat of heavy rain and flash flooding extends over much of Mississippi, Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle,” the report said.
Tropical storm #Going Advisory 18: Ida Moving Northward Over Western Mississippi. Heavy Rainfall and Flash Flooding Threat Spreading Over Much of Mississippi, Alabama, and the Western Florida Panhandle. https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc
– National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 30, 2021
Ida, who caused the death of a man in Ascension County, It will move into the United States today over Mississippi to cross the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday.
Meteorologists stressed that storm surge alerts persist from Grand Isle, Louisiana to the Alabama-Florida border.
Similarly, there is a tropical storm warning for the same region, which includes the metropolitan area of New Orleans and the neighboring lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas.
Authorities in Louisiana and Mississippi began today to assess the damage in the region, where more than a million customers remain without power supply in the first state and another 130,000 in Mississippi, according to the specialized website Poweroutage.us this Monday.
New Orleans was the most affected, it was completely in the dark, depending only on electric generators, according to the Entergy Louisiana power company.
Tropical storm #Going Advisory 17: Ida Now a Tropical Storm Over Southwestern Mississippi. Dangerous Storm Surge, Damaging Winds, and Flash Flooding Continue Over Portions of Southeastern Louisiana and Southern Mississippi. https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc
– National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 30, 2021
The company pointed out that there was a “catastrophic transmission damage”, which affected its eight transmission lines in that city, which yesterday recalled with Ida the arrival 16 years ago on the same date as the deadly Hurricane Katrina.
Ida, one of the most powerful to landfall in US history, according to Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, was hit as a tropical storm today at 8 a.m. EST about 65 miles (105 kilometers) southwest of Jackson, Mississippi, according to the Miami-based NHC.
#USA 🇺🇸🌀 | The National Center for #Hurricanes predicts that #Going it will continue to gain momentum in the next 12 hours. After making landfall, it is expected to drift inland into some areas of Louisiana and western Mississippi through Monday. # N4V pic.twitter.com/J2EveKJJrF
– 4Visión News (@ noticias4vision) August 29, 2021
Ida made landfall in Louisiana with winds of 240 kilometers per hour (150 miles) and held that category 4 power for several hours, dumping heavy rains that left severe flooding.
Governor Edwards has asked the community to stay in their homes while the damage is assessed, warning that it is dangerous to move through the affected areas.
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