All of New Orleans without power as Ida lashes Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS, La. — All of New Orleans is without powerfulness arsenic Hurricane Ida lashes Louisiana with precocious winds, dense rain, and tempest surge.

Entergy New Orleans said Sunday evening that each of Orleans Parish was without powerfulness owed to “catastrophic damage” to its transmission system.

Entergy’s outage tracker connected its website showed much than 640,000 of its Louisiana customers were without powerfulness soon earlier 9 p.m. ET.

NOLA Ready, the city’s exigency preparedness campaign, confirmed that the lone powerfulness successful the metropolis was coming from generators.

Sunday evening, Ida was continuing to churn northbound done the authorities arsenic a Category 3 tempest aft making landfall arsenic a Category 4. An 8 p.m. ET update from the National Hurricane Center said maximum sustained winds were astatine 120 mph.

Along with powerfulness outages, Ida has besides damaged structures, including blowing roofs disconnected and flooding buildings on the Gulf Coast.

Officials accidental the tempest has importantly slowed down arsenic it has moved inland, truthful the residents of New Orleans tin expect beardown winds and dense rainfall passim the night. People successful the country should stay sheltered.

“Hurricane-force winds and damaging upwind gusts are expected done contiguous wrong the hurricane informing country successful southeastern Louisiana, including metropolitan New Orleans,” wrote the NHC.

The NHC says damaging winds, particularly successful gusts, volition dispersed inland adjacent the way of the halfway of Ida into southwestern Mississippi Sunday nighttime and aboriginal Monday.

“These winds volition apt pb to wide histrion harm and powerfulness outages,” wrote the NHC.