Hurricane Ida: New Orleans, New York Floods, New Jersey Tornados, Philadelphia Floods

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PBS News Hour: Some Louisiana parishes may be without power for months. Hundreds of thousands in Southeast Louisiana are still facing a lack of power, water, and gasoline three days after Hurricane Ida struck the area. President Joe Biden is expected to visit Friday. Overall, more than a million are without power. There were at least seven storm-related deaths across three states.




PBS News Hour: To explore the federal government's response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Ida, Judy Woodruff is joined by David Bibo, acting associate administrator for response and recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He is just back from Louisiana, where he saw areas hit hardest by the storm and surveyed the damage.




Global News: Aerial footage showed the extent of damage in communities south of New Orleans, that took the brunt of Hurricane Ida, including Jefferson Parish where a local councilman says residents are left with practically 'nothing.'




CNBC: Hurricane Ida becomes the fifth-largest hurricane to hit U.S. mainland




CNN: CNN's Nadia Romero surveys the damage that Hurricane Ida left behind in New Orleans.




NBC New York: Hurricane Ida: Everything You Need to Know About the Historic Storm. Rescuers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters Monday, and utility repair crews rushed in, after a furious Hurricane Ida swamped the Louisiana coast and ravaged the electrical grid in the stifling, late-summer heat.

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CNN: CNN's John Berman shows devastating images of the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in New York while CNN's Shimon Prokupecz is in Times Square where subway riders are stranded at the station due to the torrential rain.




NBC New York: At least 37 people died, including a New York City toddler, and tens of thousands were overwhelmed by floods as the remnants of Hurricane Ida devastated the tri-state area overnight with historic rainfall, at least one tornado and savage winds.




Reuters: New York Governor provides update on Long Island storm recovery efforts New York Governor Kathy Hochul will provide an update on storm recovery efforts on Long Island

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ABC 7 New York: At least 23 people were killed in flooding across New Jersey as Ida pounded the area with rain and flash flooding.




PIX 11 News: Days after Ida, NJ neighborhood evacuated as waters continue to rise. Parts of a New Jersey town were evacuated overnight and early Friday as flood waters continued to rise, two days after Ida first swept into the area, and it may get worse.




USAToday: This drone flew over a neighborhood in Lincoln Park, New Jersey and captured the damage from flooding caused by storm remnants of Hurricane Ida.

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NBC 10: WATCH LIVE: The Schuylkill River and other areas have overflowed, homes have been toppled and the damage is still ongoing after flooding and tornadoes in the region. More here: https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/weat...lphia/2944797/




FOX 29: FOX 29's Jenn Frederick is in Conshohocken where the Schuylkill River has flooded following drenching downpours from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.




ABC 6: Philadelphia's Vine Street Expressway was underwater Thursday after the remnants of Ida barreled through Wednesday evening, bringing torrential downpours for hours. Officials said a major pumping station along the Vine Street Expressway failed and water is not being properly pumped out of the area.




USAToday: Drone footage shows devastating flooding in Philadelphia.

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WDSU News: The Lousiana Department of Health says there are 'significant concerns' about the facility where these residents were evacuated to.

Four nursing home residents in Tangipahoa Parish died in a mass shelter where 800 residents were reportedly packed into a leaky warehouse for Hurricane Ida.

State officials investigating deteriorating conditions at the facility were turned away by workers and were unable to check on other residents.

The residents were evacuated to the facility, in Independence, Louisiana, ahead of Hurricane Ida from seven different nursing homes around Southeast Louisiana to shelter from the storm.

WWL-TV has learned that the residents were taken to a facility called Waterbury Companies Inc. That facility appears to be a warehouse owned by the same person who owns those seven nursing homes.

The seven nursing homes the residents were originally housed at are: River Palms Nursing and Rehab in Orleans Parish, South Lafourche Nursing and Rehab in Lafourche Parish, Maison Orleans Healthcare Center in Orleans Parish, Park Place Healthcare Nursing Home in Jefferson Parish, West Jefferson Health Care Center in Jefferson Parish, Maison DeVille Nursing Home in Terrebonne Parish, Maison DeVille Nursing Home of Harvey in Jefferson Parish.




PBS News Hour: Biden surveys storm damage in Louisiana neighborhood




Forbes: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and other leading politicians discuss Hurricane Ida recovery efforts.




10 News First: 70-year old Theophilus Charles details the aftermath of Hurricane Ida after it struck his home in Houma.

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MSNBC: Power outages could last for weeks in some parts of New Orleans after Hurricane Ida ravaged the city.




FOX Business: Ralph Brennan New Orleans Restaurant Group President discusses the city's power situation on 'The Claman Countdown.




ABC News 7: Dramatic video shows a person walking though ankle-deep floodwater in their family’s basement when the entire wall caves in with gushing water. Scenes like this one in Cranford, New Jersey, illustrate the life-threatening conditions many people faced after Ida battered the Tri-State area this week https://abc7.com/weather/dozens-dead...east/10995796/




TODAY: Residents in New Jersey and New York are recovering following Hurricane Ida and in some areas, the flooding threat remains as rivers continue to rise after record rainfall. New York City is now implementing new severe weather warnings and basement apartment evacuations after most of the city’s storm-related deaths occurred in underground living areas. The death toll in the Northeast due to the storm is now at least 49. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez reports for Weekend TODAY.

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Biden to survey Hurricane Ida devastation in New York, New Jersey; NYC basement apartments under scrutiny

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The Straits Times: Hurricane Ida's death count rises while 600,000 lack power. Hurricane Ida's death toll in the US Northeast rose on Sunday (Sept 5) to at least 50 people, with many holding out hope for the missing in the floodwaters and Pope Francis calling on those affected by the disaster to be strong https://www.straitstimes.com/world/u...ast-50-victims




WWLTV: Thanh Truong traveled by boat to Grand Isle to report on the damage.




AP News: Hundreds of thousands of Louisianans sweltered in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on Tuesday with no electricity, no tap water, precious little gasoline and no clear idea of when things might improve. A drone video shot by an AP reporter showed extensive flooding in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana on Tuesday. New Orleans officials announced seven places around the city people could get a meal and sit in air conditioning. The city was also using 70 transit buses as cooling sites and will have drive-thru food, water and ice distribution locations set up on Wednesday, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said. More than 1 million homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi — including all of New Orleans — were left without power when Ida slammed the electric grid on Sunday with its 150 mph (240 kph) winds, toppling a major transmission tower and knocking out thousands of miles of lines and hundreds of substations.


CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...ince-1.6165156



Remnants of Hurricane Ida cause flooding, evacuations in eastern Quebec

The municipality of Grande-Vallée on the Gaspé peninsula is under a local state of emergency following severe flooding in the region due to remnants of Hurricane Ida, the village's mayor says.

Environment Canada forecasted more than 100 millimetres of rain in the Gaspé region on Friday with storm surge, rainfall and wind warnings in other areas of eastern Quebec.

Evacuations and displacements are underway in Grande-Vallée, particularly on streets near the river that bears the same name. The water levels rose significantly due to the heavy rainfall, flooding several riparian properties.

At least 12 families have been displaced and the village's seniors' home was evacuated as a preventative measure.

"Currently, the municipality is in emergency mode due to heavy rainfall following the passing of the remnants of Hurricane Ida," said Grande-Vallée Mayor Noël Richard in a Facebook post.

"We are currently working on ensuring the safety of affected citizens and we have been proceeding to evacuate residents since early this morning."

The municipality called on the Civil Security and the Sûreté du Québec to coordinate emergency measures. The village is using a community hall to help those affected by the floodwaters, and at least 25 residents have taken refuge there.

Richard advised residents to stay home, as the level of the Grande Vallée river and the water on the streets close to it are "extreme."

Between 50 and 100 millimeters of rain fell on the Gaspé peninsula, causing the river levels to rise, according to Environment Canada. However, the situation should improve during the course of the day and the water should gradually recede.

"Precipitation should end during the afternoon for areas where it still rains," said Maxime Desharnais, a meteorologist with the federal weather agency.

"We're beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel with the remnants of Hurricane Ida."

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Rush to contain large oil spill in Gulf of Mexico after Storm Ida

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WWLTV: Plaquemines Parish President Kirk Lepine Gives an update on the parish's recovery from Hurricane Ida.


CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/06/weath...day/index.html



Communities across the US trudge through the long recovery process more than a week after Hurricane Ida's landfall

From Louisiana to New York, communities are trying to piece lives back together more than a week after Hurricane Ida slammed into the Gulf Coast.

When it made landfall in Louisiana on August 29, Ida was a Category 4 hurricane; and though it weakened into a tropical depression as it reached the Northeast, it brought devastation to the region nonetheless.

In both areas of the US, roadways turned to rivers, lives were lost and structures were destroyed by strong winds and rising waters. The recovery and repair could last weeks in some places, officials said.

Just following the landfall, more than a million people were without power in Louisiana. A week later, more than 530,000 customers are in the dark, according to PowerOutage.US. The lack of power has paired with a fuel shortage, making for a "double whammy," Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng said on CBS "Face the Nation."

I'm just wondering where the help is," St. Charles Parish resident Eric Mertz said Friday. "I don't have air conditioning. No lights. I had Covid last year. I was in the ICU for 14 days, and I'm on oxygen (treatments now). And I don't have no electricity -- it's rough."

In Queens, New York, those impacted by the storm were seeking resources to help in the recovery Sunday. Some needed help getting their utilities back, some needed help with the water damage and others needed assistance with the emotional traumas.

"If you drive around Queens, it looks like a bomb went off. Everybody's personal belongings are out on the street and we've seen what it looks like down south after a hurricane. This is what Queens looks like today. It's horrible," Queens resident Barbara Amarantinis told CNN.

Due to climate change, destruction like that seen in both the Gulf and East Coast from extreme weather will be "our new normal," Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell warned Sunday.

"This is the crisis of our generation, these impacts that we are seeing from climate change, and we have to act now to try to protect against the future risks that we are going to face," Criswell said during an interview on Fox Sunday morning.

Hundreds of thousands without electricity in Louisiana

In Louisiana, not only was the damage from the storm severe, but the impact on utilities has made it even harder for many parts of the state to recover.

The state still has a long way to go in its recovery process, and the biggest challenge is with electricity, Gov. John Bel Edwards said.

More than 550,000 customers were still without power in Louisiana early Monday morning, according to PowerOutage.US.

Responding to a reporter's question, the governor said the electrical infrastructure does need to be strengthened. While the infrastructure will be hard pressed to withstand a storm as strong as Hurricane Ida, he said it does seem it needs to be strengthened to get closer to being able to.

Portions of Jefferson Parish experienced "more busted power poles (and) down utility lines than we've had in history" due to Hurricane Ida, said a Saturday update from Parish Councilman Dominick Impastato.

"There's not a neighborhood that's been spared, there's not a street that's been spared, there's not a neighborhood that doesn't have a massive amount of split power poles," said Impastato.

Much of the US came to the aid of the state in the aftermath of Ida to help displaced people and restore downed utilities.

"Louisiana's National Guard is 7,568 members strong with assistance from 9 states," said Edwards in a series of tweets over the weekend.

More than 30,000 linemen from 40 states were assisting with power restoration, Edwards said.

And as the region looks to get things back up and running, some officials are also looking ahead to changes that could be made in the future.

At least seven people have died after being evacuated from a nursing home to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, CNN has reported. In response, State Sen. Kirk Talbot said he wants to require backup generators at nursing homes.

"I can tell you that the first bill I'll file next year will be to mandate that nursing homes have backup generator power," Talbot told CNN affiliate WDSU.


'Once in a century storm' hits the east

After surveying the damage in Louisiana Friday, President Joe Biden will travel to New Jersey and New York on Tuesday to assess the impact on the East Coast, where the storm claimed the lives of at least 50 people.

Paterson, New Jersey, Mayor André Sayegh lamented the destruction, telling CNN, "As if a once in a century virus wasn't enough, we had a once in a century storm."

In Paterson alone, about 300 people have been rescued, almost 100 cars were left abandoned throughout the city and 30 families were seeking refuge at emergency shelters Saturday, Sayegh said.

Many of the efforts at rescue have been strenuous, like the assistance of a man on the banks of the Passaic River near a bridge. Paterson Fire Chief Brian McDermott described how Paterson's Metro Urban Strike Team drilled a hole in the concrete bridge, ploughing through several layers of rebar and corrugated steel to see through to the bottom of the bridge and eventually pull the man out.

"All while the storm is raging, the winds are raging, and we're handling a third alarm fire. An ambulance trapped with people. A hundred fifty people calling for help and we're only 8.4 square miles -- that's a lot going on," McDermott said commenting on his team's overall rescue operations.
In Elizabeth, New Jersey, a mother, father, and son died by drowning in their apartment building, officials said.

Rosa Espinal, 72, and her husband Jose Torres, 71, and their 38-year-old son Jose Torres died when more than a dozen feet of water drenched their apartment in a residential complex, city spokesperson Kelly Martins told CNN Friday. Their neighbor, 33-year-old Shakia Garrett, also drowned, Martins said
In New York, the initial assessment of the damage Ida left behind is estimated as at least $50 million, Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a news conference Sunday afternoon.

Displaced New Yorkers will be eligible for temporary housing assistance funds, unemployment assistance, legal services, crisis counseling and home repairs, she said.

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Hurricane Ida death toll rises as recovery efforts continue

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FOX News: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed major disaster declaration Sunday, calling for more federal assistance, days after remnants of Hurricane Ida battered the tri-state area, the cleanup and recovery continue for New York and New Jersey.

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Louisiana gas stations still grapple with outages as Hurricane Ida cleanup continues

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WWLTV: Mayor Cantrell gives Hurricane Ida recovery update. Mayor LaToya Cantrell is giving an update on recovery after Hurricane Ida, including Entergy's restoration timeline for the city




WWLTV: Tangipahoa Parish President Robby Miller gives an update on Hurricane Ida recovery efforts on Monday, Sept. 6 at 9:45 a.m.