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New Orleans Cancels All Sunday Flights Ahead of Hurricane Ida
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Aug 29, 20210:46Now PlayingLong lines were seen at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport after it was announced that all departing and arriving flights scheduled for Sunday would be cancelled due to Hurricane Ida.
Hurricane Ida gained power rapidly Sunday as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico on its way to smashing into Louisiana, threatening to unleash mass flooding and destruction in New Orleans.
The Category 4 hurricane has top winds of 150 miles (241 kilometers) per hour, the National Hurricane Center said at 7 a.m. local time. Only two other storms on record have made landfall in Louisiana with winds that powerful.
“I feel sick to my stomach watching,” Eric Blake, a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center said on Twitter. “This is a very sobering morning.”
Ida is barreling into New Orleans on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history. When it hits Sunday, the storm will be the biggest test yet of the region’s levees and infrastructure rebuilt after Katrina.
Ida, poised to come ashore just southwest of New Orleans, is expected to drive up ocean levels as much as 16 feet (4.9 meters) and dump 2 feet of rain. Winds will be strong enough to rip roofs from houses and snap trees and power poles. Blackouts could last weeks.
Forecasters expect the storm to grow even stronger as it approaches. It’s currently set to bring the most powerful winds to Louisiana on records going back to 1851, and its central pressure rivals Katrina, according to Phil Klotzbach a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University.
If Ida’s winds gain just a little more power, it could become a Category 5 storm, said Todd Crawford, director of meteorology at commercial forecaster Atmospheric G2. Only four Category 5 storms have hit the contiguous U.S.
In addition to Ida, the hurricane center is tracking four more potential storms in the Atlantic and Hurricane Nora, which is raking Mexico’s Pacific coast.
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