8-30-21
Hurricane Ida knocked out power to all of New Orleans and inundated coastal Louisiana communities on a deadly path through the Gulf Coast. Forecasters warned of damaging winds, heavy rainfall that could cause flash floods and life-threatening storm surge as Ida continued its rampage Monday through southeastern Louisiana and then into Mississippi. It made landfall on the same day 16 years earlier that Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi.
Hurricane Ida tied for fifth strongest storm to hit the United States based on wind speed, but the whopper of a hurricane is far more than that. It’s an exclamation point on a recent record onslaught of 17 storms to hit the United States in the last two years. It’s the sixth storm to hit this year, and it’s the first time in 150 years that a state has been hit by two hurricanes with 150 mph winds in two years. Laura hit Louisiana last year.
THE ONLY DEATH REPORTED SO FAR FROM HURRICANE IDA HAPPENED IN ASCENSION PARISH. SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES WERE CALLED TO A HOME OFF OF HIGHWAY SIX-TWENTY-ONE IN PRAIRIEVILLE AFTER REPORTS OF A MAN POSSIBLY INJURED FROM A FALLEN TREE. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THEY FOUND THE MAN HAD DIED. HIS IDENTITY HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED BUT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAYS HE WAS SIXTY YEARS OLD.
SEVERAL SCHOOLS IN ACADIANA WILL BE CLOSED TODAY. HERE’S SYLVIA MASTERS WITH THE LIST.
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CLECO IS REPORTING ABOUT FORTY-SEVEN HUNDRED CUSTOMERS IN SAINT MARY PARISH ARE WITHOUT POWER AFTER HURRICANE IDA MOVED THROUGH. A LARGE TREE WAS KNOCKED OVER IN MORGAN CITY. IT NARROWLY MISSED A HOUSE. MANY RESIDENTS IN THE CITY TOLD REPORTERS THEY FEEL FORTUNATE THAT THERE WAS NOT MORE DAMAGE.
THE STORM HAS LED THE U-S POSTAL SERVICE TO POSTPONE SERVICE FOR CERTAIN ZIP CODES. THOSE INCLUDE ZIP CODES BEGINNING WITH SEVEN-ZERO-ZERO, SEVEN-ZERO-ONE, AND SEVEN-ZERO-THREE THROUGH SEVEN-ZERO-EIGHT. THERE WILL BE NO RETAIL SERVICE, MAIL DELIVERY AND DROP SHIPMENTS IN THOSE AREAS. THERE’S NO WORD YET ON WHEN THE MAIL DELIVERY WILL RESUME.
ACADIANA SCHOOLS ARE LAGGING BEHIND IN REPORTING COVID-NINETEEN CASES TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ACCORDING TO A REPORT FROM THE ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER. THE DEPARTMENT IS REQUIRING ALL SCHOOLS SUBMIT REPORTS SHOWING THE NUMBER OF CASES OF COVID AMONG STUDENTS AND ADULTS ON CAMPUS. IN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS, THERE WAS NO ACADIANA PARISH THAT HAD ALL SCHOOLS IN ITS PARISH SUBMIT REPORTS, WHICH INCLUDES PRIVATE AND CHARTER SCHOOLS. IN LAFAYETTE PARISH TWENTY-NINE SCHOOLS SUBMITTED REPORTS THE FIRST WEEK AND FORTY-THREE IN THE SECOND WEEK.
A KAPLAN MAN WAS KILLED IN A TWO VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN ACADIA PARISH SATURDAY MORNING JUST AFTER ELEVEN. STATE POLICE SAY THE DRIVER OF A VEHICLE ON HIGHWAY NINETY-TWO FAILED TO YIELD AT A STOP SIGN AT THE HIGHWAY THIRTEEN INTERSECTION AND HIT A NORTHBOUND VEHICLE. FIFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD ISIDRO PADILLA WAS A BACK SEAT PASSENGER IN ONE OF THE VEHICLES. HE WAS NOT RESTRAINED AND WAS PARTIALLY EJECTED WHEN THE VEHICLE FLIPPED AND HE WAS KILLED.
