Tulsa native evacuates New Orleans home, awaits return after Ida

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More than a cardinal successful Louisiana are inactive successful the dark, Monday night, arsenic galore crossed the authorities statesman to prime up the pieces near down by Hurricane Ida.

Native Tulsan Matt Almon and his household escaped Ida and traveled to Florida to hold retired the storm.

“As we were watching TV and watching everything deed it felt similar watching Katrina again," helium said. "It's heartbreaking to spot each the devastation."

Almon moved to New Orleans, Louisiana successful 2004 for instrumentality school. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall and tore done Almon's caller location city.

"We ended up being displaced for 4 months earlier we could spell back," Almon said.

Again, helium waits to instrumentality location arsenic the metropolis of New Orleans works to reconstruct powerfulness to each its residents.

"Nobody knows what's going connected yet," helium said.

The fearfulness of that chartless archetypal crept up connected Almon and his household Friday erstwhile they decided it was champion to get retired of The Bayou.

“We were having Katrina flashbacks and PTSD experiences the full clip due to the fact that conscionable similar Katrina this 1 snuck up connected america precise fast," Almon said.

Pictures and video sent to him Sunday from neighbors and friends who stayed down made those visions a reality.

“They were starting to freak retired a small spot they were talking astir the houses creaking and the upwind conscionable pounding successful and the rainfall into everything…water seeping done walls," helium said. "They had a beauteous harrowing 5 oregon six hours.”

The Category 4 hurricane is present a tropical storm. Almon hopes helium and his household tin instrumentality soon to assistance rebuild from the wreckage.

“We’re hopeful that it wasn’t arsenic atrocious arsenic it could’ve been," helium said.

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