Ida downs New Orleans power on deadly path through Louisiana

Hurricane Ida knocked retired powerfulness to each of New Orleans and inundated coastal Louisiana communities connected a deadly way done the Gulf Coast that is inactive unfolding and promises much destruction.

Forecasters warned of damaging winds, dense rainfall that could origin flash floods and life-threatening tempest surge arsenic Ida continued its rampage Monday done southeastern Louisiana and past into Mississippi.

It made landfall connected the aforesaid time 16 years earlier that Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi.

Its 150-mph (230 kph) winds tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever deed the mainland.

Ida was already blamed for astatine slightest 1 decease successful Louisiana.