Hurricane Ida: flooding and devastation as historically powerful storm makes landfall

Hurricane Ida: flooding and devastation as historically powerful storm makes landfall

One person has died as Hurricane Ida, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US, knocked out power to all of New Orleans, reversed the flow of the Mississippi River and blew roofs off buildings across Louisiana. Across the state, more than a million households were without power, and the outage in New Orleans had left the city more vulnerable to flooding – 16 years after Hurricane Katrina caused devastation.

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