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Hurricane Ida was a deadly and extremely destructive tropical cyclone in 2021 that became the second-most damaging and intense hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana on record, behind Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
That system is designed to protect populated areas against anything but a 1-in-10,000-years flood. If the Corps built a 1-in-500-year levee system in New Orleans, Ivan van Heerden, deputy director of Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center, says, it would cost $30 billion. [55]
Lessons from New Orleans' experience with Ida show that climate resiliency can't be achieved with single-purpose infrastructure projects. How New Orleans’ infrastructure held up to Hurricane Ida ...
New Orleans, Louisiana, was hit by a “dangerous” Category 4 hurricane packing maximum sustained winds of 150 mph on Sunday, August 29, the National Hurricane Center said.Footage posted on ...
Storm Ida made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in coastal Louisiana on Sunday, August 29, bringing maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.Mike Bradley posted ...
The levee system revamped after Katrina protected New Orleans from catastrophic flooding after Ida struck on Sunday with 150 mph winds, tied for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the ...
Widespread damage from Hurricane Ida was reported across the New Orleans metro area on Monday, August 30. Evacuated Louisiana residents were instructed to stay away while emergency crews dealt ...
Ida’s hurricane-force winds stretched 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the storm’s eye, or about half the size of Katrina, and a New Orleans' infrastructure official emphasized that the city is ...