Hurricane Ida Could Leave Parts Of Louisiana Coast ‘Uninhabitable For
Interstate highways across southern Louisiana were packed Saturday morning as many residents fled ahead of Hurricane Ida, which is expected to rapidly intensify over the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in the state as a Category 4 hurricane on Sunday.”Actions to protect life and property should be rushed to completion today in the warning area,” the National Hurricane Center said. A hurricane warning is in effect from Intracoastal City in central Louisiana to the Louisiana-Mississippi border, and includes metropolitan New Orleans. The New Orleans National Weather Service office issued a dire message Saturday morning, warning of “devastating to catastrophic” impacts that could leave areas “uninhabitable for weeks or months.” Even sturdy buildings in the direct path of the hurricane could suffer complete roof and wall failure, forecasters warned, with damage “greatly accentuated by large airborne projectiles.” Power and communications outages are expected to be widespread across south Louisiana. Ida first became a tropical storm in the western Caribbean Sea on Thursday before strengthening into a hurricane on Friday right before it moved across Cuba. Conditions in the Gulf of Mexico are ripe for explosive intensification, with very warm water temperatures, low wind shear and no dry air. Additionally, the storm is forecast to move directly over an area of high oceanic heat content, which is a region where warm water temperatures extend much deeper than just the surface. Many of the most powerful storms in history, like Hurricane Michael in 2018 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, rapidly intensified after moving over pockets of high oceanic heat content. A Sunday landfall would come 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005. Major Hurricane Could Strike Gulf Coast In Coming Days (Forbes)
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Article Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/08/28/hurricane-ida-could-leave-parts-of-louisiana-coast-uninhabitable-for-weeks-or-months-forecasters-warn/
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