NeW ORLEANS: With the Hurricane Ida slammed Louisiana on Monday, one person has died and over a million people were left without power as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US.
The hurricane has caused devastation across Louisiana, which made landfall late on Sunday morning at Port Fourchon, exactly 16 years since Hurricane Katrina, the catastrophic hurricane had killed over 1,800 on the Gulf coast in 2005.
According to authorities, this catastrophic hurricane has hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm with 150 mile-per-hour winds, and torrential downpours.
President Joe Biden has declared the event a major disaster and ordered federal aid to help recovery efforts.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said Ida could be the state’s worst direct hit by a hurricane since the 1850s and promised a swift action to rescue people.
Desperate for rescue, locals posted their addresses and locations, directing rescue teams to their attics or rooftops.
Officials assured to intensify the rescue operation as the weather broke and the sun rose.
The torrential rains mostly moved into Mississippi on Monday as the storm slowly moved north.
Officials have predicted that Ida is likely to move over central and northeastern Mississippi, and move across the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday.