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US state braces for Category 4 event as hospitals struggle to cope with high Covid levels

It is the toughest test yet for the hundreds of miles of new levees built around New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall 16 years ago to the day, inundating historically Black neighborhoods and killing more than 1,800 people.

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, forcing those who did not flee to brace themselves…

It is the toughest test yet for the hundreds of miles of new levees built around New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on Sunday as an extremely dangerous Category ...

It is the toughest test yet for the hundreds of miles of new levees built around New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall 16 years ago to the day, inundating historically Black neighborhoods and killing more than 1,800 people.

For having me. yes, we have issued, if you notice our parish is 65 miles long from the top and to the foot and venice, louisiana, that goes right into the gulf. if you look at louisiana at the boot, were at the end of the boot. we are out there in no mans land, if you want to say. but we have issued evacuation order on friday at 3:00 p.m. we upped it a little bit further up north on saturday. and now we have seen a good deal of people heed our warning and move on. and we, you know, encourage our...

Prepared to be without power for days on weeks. >> what are you hearing from other people in your community who stayed? how concerned are people right now where you are? >> well, where im located, its whats called the hista system. its a 100-year levee protection that the corps has done some updates. those are some flood gates that we have closed. we have closed off some of the sections of our levee on our highway. so we ordered a mandatory evacuation on friday, and then we increased that mandat...

Arrives. joining me now is the president of plaquemines parish, kirk lepine. kirk, lets get right to it. the national weather service is reporting the water has gone over at least one levee. what can you tell us about that? >> yes. we are separated by the mississippi river, so we have an east bank and a west bank of our parish. our parish is 58 miles long from the tip of the top to the bottom. were the parish that sticks out in the gulf of mexico where if you look at the boot of louisiana, were ...

Doing and what its like where you are. oh, goodness. do we not have the phone hook up for ali? okay. were going to hook that up. he may be, you know, with storms. theres always difficulty with the cell service certainly. were going to go back to ali in just a moment. lets talk about hurricane ida barreling towards the gulf coast and making landfall in just hours from now. you have the residents of plaquemanes parish. joining me now is the president kirk lepine. lets talk about where things stand...