Hurricane Ida is causing all variety of hell along the southerly coast of the US . The Category 4 hurricane gain the northerly Gulf of Mexico coast on Sunday , bringing winds of 241 kilometers ( 150 miles ) per time of day between Grand Isle in Louisiana and Bay St Louis in Mississippi , as per theNational Hurricane Center .
The tropical violent storm made landfall on the sixteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina that caused over 1,800 demise in late August 2005 . While Ida is not expected to be as ruinous as Katrina , it ’s caused far-flung devastation through intense winds and flash flooding .
As a remarkable indication of Hurricane Ida ’s power , it do to override the flow of the Mississippi River on Sunday , August 29 , forcing pee to run upstream and resulting in a damaging emission rate , according to information from theUS Geological Survey .
" I remember , offhand , that there was some menses turnaround of the Mississippi River during Hurricane Katrina , but it is extremely uncommon , " Scott Perrien , a supervising hydrologist with the USGS Lower Mississippi Gulf Water Science Center in Baton Rouge , Louisiana , toldCNN .
Fossil fuel product in the Gulf of Mexico discontinue after workers were force to empty from all 11 of the area ’s seaward rigs and over one-half of the offshore platform . According to theBureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement , oil production was down 95 percent this week while petrol production was curve by 93 percent .
Due to storm damage to office infrastructure , Louisiana and Mississippi have both been wrack with powerfulness outage , leaving at least 1,100,000 people in the dark , harmonise toPowerOutage.us .
Many hospital are relying on emergency fill-in generators , but the storm also caused a failure of the backup source at Thibodaux Regional Health System in Lafourche Parish , an area that was hit heavily by the initial push of the storm . NOLAreports that doctors and nurses were force to manually advertise air in and out of the lung of seriously ill ICU patients while they were being transfer to another story .
As if things could n’t get much ruffianly , Louisiana is currently dealing with a surge of COVID-19 case andmany infirmary are reaching full capability . Ida is presently bringing a further var. on hospitals , strangle rescue heart , and theearly closureof vaccine centers , all of which are set to deepen this ongoing public health disaster .
“ It bother me considerably … you ’re having two likely or real catastrophes conflating on each other , ” Dr Anthony Fauci , Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President , toldCNNon Sunday .
“ We ’re having a situation where even when you ’re extend to the limit , to superimpose upon it what will likely be a historic atmospheric condition environmental tragedy is going to do nothing but make thing much , much sorry , ” Fauci added .
