Normally busy streets were largely empty Sunday morning after many people in the hurricane’s path heeded evacuation orders, while those who stayed behind hunkered down for Ida’s arrival.
Ida intensified early Sunday to a Category 4 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour, after crossing the warmest and deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico. The storm, now at the second-highest classification for hurricanes, was expected to make landfall in southeast Louisiana at about 1 p.m., the National Weather Service in New Orleans said.
The region could see rainfall of up to 20 inches or more, with winds of up to 125 miles per hour at landfall, and dangerous storm surge, the weather service said. A surge of 12 to 16 feet is expected at Port Fourchon, La., south of New Orleans, to the mouth of the Mississippi River. Tornadoes were possible from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle. The weather service also issued an extreme wind warning for areas near New Orleans on Sunday.
“If you are under a mandatory evacuation...LEAVE NOW!” the weather service in New Orleans warned Saturday evening. “You do not want to play around with your life and it is not worth it to stay if you have the means to leave.”
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