BATON ROUGE, La.—New Orleans lifted a nightly curfew Wednesday as the city moved closer to regaining full power 10 days after Hurricane Ida, but hundreds of thousands of people outside the city were still without lights and water and more than a quarter of a million children were unable to return to schools. The city…
Hurricane’s Larry’s Track Shifts West, Residents of Newfoundland Warned to Prepare
HALIFAX—The expected track of hurricane Larry has shifted to the west, with the latest forecast suggesting the storm could make landfall in eastern Newfoundland early Saturday. The Canadian Hurricane Centre in Halifax issued a tropical cyclone chart this morning that shows the centre of the storm crossing over the island’s Avalon Peninsula at 3 a.m….
Hurricane Ida Evacuees Urged to Return to New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS—With power due back for almost all of New Orleans by next week, Mayor LaToya Cantrell strongly encouraged residents who evacuated because of Hurricane Ida to begin returning home. But outside the city, the prospects of recovery appeared bleaker, with no timeline on power restoration and homes and businesses in tatters. Six days after…
Death Toll Tops 40 After Ida’s Remnants Blindside Northeast
NEW YORK—A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage, and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than 40 people in their homes and cars. In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding…
At Least 45 Dead After Ida’s Remnants Blindside Northeast
NEW YORK—A stunned U.S. East Coast faced a rising death toll, surging rivers, tornado damage, and continuing calls for rescue Thursday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida walloped the region with record-breaking rain, drowning more than 40 people in their homes and cars. In a region that had been warned about potentially deadly flash flooding…
Biden Pledges Federal Support to Those Impacted by Hurricane Ida
President Joe Biden said Thursday that the White House would help those impacted by Hurricane Ida ahead of his trip to Louisiana to survey storm damage. “My message to everyone affected is we’re all in this together. The nation is here to help. That’s the message I’ve been making clear to the majors, governors, energy…
At Least 23 Dead, 200,000 Without Power in Tri-State Area Historic Floods
September 2, 2021
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At least 23 have died as Hurricane Ida ravaged the Tri-State area on Wednesday night, including a toddler from New York City. “A record set two weeks ago, another record set now,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a press meeting. “This is the biggest wake-up call we could possibly get,” he said, referring to the…
At Least 14 Dead After Ida’s Remnants Hit Northeast
NEW YORK—The remnants of Hurricane Ida inundated large swaths of the northeastern U.S. with historic and unanticipated fury Wednesday night, killing at least 14 people in flooding in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as basement apartments suddenly filled with water, rivers, and creeks swelled to record levels and roadways turned into car-swallowing canals. Eight…
Hurricane Ida Leaves Indelible Mark in Louisiana
The one thing Debbie Russel of LaPlace, Louisiana, remembers about Hurricane Ida is the wind—“It was unreal.” “The wind was so strong,” she said. “We just got in the hall and prayed. I had my hands over my ears—the wind.” With gusts blasting in at 150 miles per hour, the Category 4 storm made landfall…
Explainer: Ida Similar to Katrina, but Stronger, Smaller
Hurricane Ida is looking eerily like a dangerous and perhaps scarier sequel to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in American history. But there’s a few still-to-come twists that could make Ida nastier in some ways, but not quite as horrific in others. “The main story with Katrina was storm surge damage, and over a…
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