'We're not leaving anyone behind,' tourists and locals hunker down as Hurricane Ida hits New Orleans

Record ID: 1634104

  • Title: 'We're not leaving anyone behind,' tourists and locals hunker down as Hurricane Ida hits New Orleans
  • Date: 29th August 2021
  • Summary: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 29, 2021) (REUTERS) PAN FROM PALM TREES TO BUILDING WITH U.S. FLAG MORGAN CITY, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 28, 2021) (REUTERS) PERSON HOLDS SIGN SAYING (English): "GOD FORGIVE US AND SAVE US FROM THE HURRICANE" AHEAD OF HURRICANE IDA NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 29, 2021) (REUTERS) TRAFFIC SIGN HANGS FROM POLE BY ONE SCREW PAN FROM PLANTS IN WIND TO BOARDED UP ENTRANCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) VISALIA, CALIFORNIA RESIDENT VISITING NEW ORLEANS FOR HIS SON'S (TO HIS LEFT, WEARING GRAY HOODIE) 22ND BIRTHDAY, BRETT HOBBES, SAYING: "We did (try to leave). So we've been try to get out, any flight out, anywhere at all, and they've just been canceled, sold out, or full, so we're not getting out probably until Tuesday or Wednesday next week." (SOUNDBITE) (English) VISALIA, CALIFORNIA RESIDENT VISITING NEW ORLEANS FOR HER SON'S (TO HER LEFT, WEARING GRAY HOODIE) 22ND BIRTHDAY, KATIE HOBBES, SAYING: "Yup. So we tried trains, we tried rental cars, we tried planes, but there is seven of us, so we got to... we got to... It's all or nothing. We're not leaving anyone behind." HOUMA, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 28, 2021) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HART FAMILY MONITORS HURRICANE IDA ARRIVAL FROM THEIR PORCH (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOSEPHINE HART, SISTER OF BONNIE SINGLETON, SAYING: "Well, we're sitting here with our family, watching this hurricane as it gets to land, and by the grace of God, we're going to be OK here. Me, my grandkids, my kids have been having fuss to evacuate, so by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will be OK." HART FAMILY MONITORS HURRICANE IDA ARRIVAL FROM THEIR PORCH NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 29, 2021) (REUTERS) VEHICLE TURING ONTO CANAL STREET PERSON CROSSING STREET U.S. FLAG ON BUILDING PAN FROM PALM TREE TO PLANTS ON GROUND IN WINDS (SOUNDBITE) (English) PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, RESIDENT, KEISHA EDWARDS, SAYING: "Well, I feel like we were slightly blindsided because we came from out of town and just checking the weather just tells you that it's going to be rain, but it didn't say anything about a hurricane. So we arrived Friday and Friday we learned about the hurricane, that all the flights were canceled, so we're stuck." WIND BLOWING ON CANAL STREET WIND BLOWING ON POYDRAS STREET WIND BLOWING THROUGH TREES ON POYDRAS STREET TRAFFIC SIGN TOPPLED BY WIND TRAFFIC SIGN BLOWN BY WIND (SOUNDBITE) (English) NEW ORLEANS, RESIDENT, TERRENCE SIMONS, SAYING: "I mean, it's kind of... like I was born and raised in New Orleans, you know, and I went through Katrina, so it's one of those things like you feel kind of eerie about it, but it is what it is. You know, it's... you hunker down and suppose we are in the safest spot right now in town. So, it's supposed to be a staycation. And that's what we do now, is stay instead of running away from it. But for the most part, I feel like it's gonna do its thing like any other hurricane and just, you know, be safe, be prepared, a lot of power probably be out, you know, just different things. But it's just normal. It's normal Louisiana-typical weather, just a lot of wind and rain. That's about it. Yeah." VARIOUS OF WIND BLOWING ON POYDRAS STREET VARIOUS OF WIND BLOWING THROUGH PALM TREES ON CANAL STREET VEHICLES MOVING THROUGH BOURBON STREET VARIOUS OF BOARDED UP STORE ON BOURBON STREET RESTAURANT SIGN BLOWN BY WIND STREET BARRIERS BLOWN BY WIND
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2021 20:48
  • Keywords: Category 4 Houma Hurricane Ida Morgan City New Orleans boradning up stores buildings evacuation gas landfall levee protection system storm
  • Location: NEW ORLEANS, + HOUMA, + MORGAN CITY, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES
  • City: NEW ORLEANS, + HOUMA, + MORGAN CITY, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,United States,Wind/Hurricane/Typhoons/Tornadoes
  • Reuters ID: LVA001ESC272F
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday (August 29) as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, forcing those who did not flee to brace themselves for the toughest test yet of the billions of dollars spent on levee upgrades following Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago.
    Ida gathered strength overnight and made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, at 11:55 a.m. CDT (16:55 GMT), the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Hurricane-strength winds extended 50 miles (80 km) out from Ida's eye, forcing New Orleans to suspend emergency medical services as the storm crawled northwest at 13 miles per hour (21 km per hour).
    Hundreds of miles of new levees were built around New Orleans after the devastation of Katrina, which made landfall 16 years ago to the day, inundating historically Black neighborhoods and killing more than 1,800 people.
    (Production: Aleksandra Michalska, Hussein Waaile, Adrees Latif)
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