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than a million customers were without power after Ida made landfall as a
Category 4 hurricane in Louisiana on Sunday, the 16th anniversary of
Hurricane Katrina. By Monday, the storm was downgraded to a tropical
storm, but still posed a major threat of flooding and high winds to the
inland Southeast and the mid-Atlantic, according to the National
Hurricane Center.
Entergy, which provides power to New Orleans, reported "catastrophic
damage" to its transmission and that all 400,000 of its customers in
Orleans Parish were powerless, noted U.S. News & World Report.
Ida moved farther inland over southeastern Louisiana and Mississippi
early Monday. The National Hurricane Center projected Ida would move
across the Tennessee Valley today.
The White House said yesterday more than 3,600 Federal Emergency
Management Agency employees were deployed and 17 urban search and rescue
teams, along with hundreds of air and ground ambulances, had been
staged. FEMA also deployed more than 3.4 million meals. Continue Reading
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