LIVE: Latest forecast track as Cat 4 Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Louisiana, with extremely dangerous storm surges, wind and flooding expected in the region.
Hurricane Ida made landfall along the Gulf Coast — near Port Fourchon, Louisiana — on Sunday, the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
"This is going to be devastating — a devastating, a life-threatening storm," President Joe Biden told reporters after he was briefed by FEMA officials."So please, all you folks in Mississippi and in Louisiana ... take precautions, listen, take if seriously." “Because of the possibility that severe winds will damage your home, it is a good idea to have a mattress nearby that you can use to put over yourself and other family members to protect yourself from any falling debris,” he said.
"You have everything that you need. We will get through this together. Be prepared. Stay where you are.”Collin Arnold, director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, warned residents that emergency services wouldn’t be able to reach them until Monday. Only four storms have made landfall in the continental United States as Category 5 hurricanes in the last century: the Labor Day Hurricane in 1935, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992 and Michael in 2018."Everybody in the path of Ida should be prepared for very heavy rainfall, very strong winds, life-threatening storm surge along the coast and isolated tornados as well," National Weather Service meteorologist Jennifer McNatt told NBC News on Sunday.
The center also said the region might see tornados Sunday into Monday from southeast Louisiana all the way to the western Florida Panhandle.With all Sunday flights canceled in New Orleans, tens of thousands fled by car, clogging highways."There's a lot of people that drive into flooded roads and it causes them to be swept off the roads," she added.
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