'100 percent of the grid is smashed, hundreds of telephone poles snapped, trees hit power lines and just ripped them out,' Emergency Management Director Joe Valiente said about Jefferson Parish.
Hurricane Ida caused damage to almost every home in one Louisiana parish, and an estimated 10 parishes had their entire power grids collapse, an emergency management official said.
One of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the U.S. mainland weakened into a tropical storm overnight as it pushed inland over Mississippi with torrential rain and shrieking winds, its danger far from over. The flooding from the rain and surge in the maze of rivers and bayous south of New Orleans threatened hundreds of homes. On social media, people posted their addresses and directed search and rescue teams to their attics or rooftops.
No major flooding was reported inside the flood control system that protects New Orleans, but with communications spotty and no power, the extent of the damage across the city was not immediately clear.
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