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Sep 23, 2023 · The street dead ends at the sun-burnt slopes of a 17-foot-high levee built after the storm. While the levees provide essential protection to the residents of storm-battered Jefferson Parish, they severed the community’s long-time connection to the lake and removed key habitat for fish and other species. The new levees are higher and stronger ...
Sep 11, 2023 · The street dead ends at the sun-burnt slopes of a 17-foot-high levee built after the storm. While the levees provide essential protection to the residents of storm-battered Jefferson Parish, they severed the community’s long-time connection to the lake and removed key habitat for fish and other species. The new levees are higher and stronger ...
- Schools Closed Until Further Notice
- Not Everyone in Lafitte Wants to Be Rescued
- Hurricane Ida's 172 Mph Wind Gust in Louisiana Among Nation's Strongest Measured
- 911 Service Restored in New Orleans
- Aerial Views of The Damage
- LSU Students Asked to Delay Return to Campus
- People on Grand Isle Wave to Helicopter
- About 100 People Rescued from Lafitte, Louisiana
- Tornado Damage in Alabama
- Hospitals Slammed by Covid Take Another Blow from Ida
Public schools in New Orleans are closed until further notice, as are those in Plaquemines, St. Tammany, St. Bernard, Terrebonne, Lafourche and St. Charlesparishes, according to a list compiled by WDSU. Jefferson Parish announced schools would be closed until at least Wednesday, while St. Johns Parish said schools there would be closed until at lea...
Some people are choosing to stay behind in the flooded southeastern Louisiana community of Lafitte, despite rescue boats that arrived there Monday, Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng told the Weather Channel Monday afternoon. Sheng said she didn't know if all of the people who had specifically called for help had been reached, but rescuer...
Hurricane Ida pummeled southeast Louisiana with destructive wind gusts, including one gust along the coast among the nation's strongest for any hurricane. Ida roared ashore in Louisiana at Category 4 strength Sunday with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph – a high-end Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. As Ida's center ...
New Orleans' 911 service was fully operational again late Monday afternoon after being down for hours after a central routing facility stopped working. Several other parishes were still experiencing problems with emergency services.
Photos shared by U.S. Rep. Garrett Graves give a sense of some of the damage along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Graves posted the photos on Twitter after a helicopter flight to examine the damage caused by Hurricane Ida. He said the photos showed Grand Isle, Fourchon, Houma and Laplace. The images showed nearly an entire stretch of Grand Isle underwat...
Students of Louisiana State University are being asked not to return to campus until they have been alerted to do so. "In this aftermath, we're asking that our students, staff and faculty not rush back to campus but wait until they've been alerted an call clear is given so that you give our emergency protocols an opportunity to clear the way and ma...
About 40 people on the ground in hard-hit Grand Isle, Louisiana, waved and flashed thumbs up to a Jefferson Parish sheriff's helicopter as it flew overhead to check on them, nola.com reported. They were using heavy equipment to clear debris and seemed to be OK, the sheriff said. Officials had been unable to reach anyone there since Sunday afternoon...
Lafitte Mayor Tim Kerner told The Weather Channel that rescuers pulled 27 people out of the flooded town last night, and about 70 today. Kerner estimated that about 380 people stayed behind in the small community along Bayou Barataria south of New Orleans. Rescue operations were ongoing, but were not urgent according to those at the scene. Jefferso...
A tornado spawned by Ida damaged buidings in Saraland, Alabama, Monday afternoon, WKRG-TV reported. The town is on the north side of Mobile.
Hurricane Ida added to the misery at hospitals already stressed to the breaking point with one of the worst COVID-19 surges in the nation. As the Category 4 storm roared into southern Louisiana on Sunday, it ripped off part of the roof of the Lady of the Sea General Hospital in southern Lafourche Parish. Another hospital in Lafourche Parish lost it...
Aug 11, 2024 · It’s the latest in a string of storm protection snubs for the town that nearly 1,800 residents call home on the fringes of Jefferson Parish, where brackish marsh meets cypress-filled swamps and docks crammed with commercial fishing boats. During Ida, storm surge topped Jean Lafitte’s 7.5-foot protective “ring” levee.
Aug 30, 2021 · People were reportedly trapped in attics after a levee overtopped in Jean Laffite. 1 Million Louisianans and all of New Orleans was without power after catastrophic transformer damage. One death ...
Aug 30, 2021 · One bit of good news, he added, was that the region's levee system held up well, with only minor problems. Jefferson Parish stretches from Lake Pontchartrain to Grand Isle in the coastal area where Ida made landfall with 150-mph winds around midday Sunday.
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Aug 30, 2021 · That's because the levee system for the most part withstood the test of the storm. Gov. John Bel Edwards said no major levees failed during Ida, thanks to a $14 billion hurricane risk-reduction ...
