Ida intensified so quickly that officials didn't have time to order mandatory evacuations. In Galliano, Louisiana, the struggle to care for patients as the storm roared ashore was exacerbated after a part of the roof of Lady of the Sea General Hospital blew off. Ida has also triggered concerns about the city's hospitals, which are already overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients and have little room for evacuated patients. Katrina had caused levee breaches and catastrophic flooding in New Orleans. The strength and path of Ida will be a significant test of New Orleans' post-Katrina flood defenses, including levees, flood walls and gates that were built to provide storm protection. Ida made landfall on the anniversary of Katrina, the dangerous Category 3 storm that devastated Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years ago, killing more than 1,800 people and causing $125 billion in damage. On Sunday evening, New Orleans said the entire city lost power after "catastrophic transmission damage." Heavy rainfall is expected through Monday across southeast Louisiana, coastal Mississippi as well as southwestern Alabama, and could trigger "considerable to life-threatening flash and urban flooding."Īs of early Monday, more than 1 million Louisiana utility customers are without power, according to. The NHC said winds will likely damage trees and trigger power outages as Ida continues to move inland over southeastern Louisiana. The NHC warned that a life-threatening storm surge is expected for Grand Isle, Louisiana, to the Alabama/Florida border, including Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Maurepas, and Metropolitan New Orleans. Nicole also capped off an unusually active final month of the hurricane season.įollowing Lisa and Martin, Nicole became the third storm to become a hurricane in November, tying 2001 for the most on record in November, according to Phil Klotzbach, tropical scientist at Colorado State University.The storm is expected to weaken rapidly over the next day or so, and the NHC said Ida is expected to become a tropical depression by this evening. Nicole set a number of November low pressure records in eastern Florida, according to NOAA meteorologist David Roth. Nicole was also the second latest in season hurricane to strike the mainland U.S.
November hurricane landfalls in recorded history.
Nicole was one of only four mainland U.S. Heavy rain also flooded lanes of Interstate 95 in downtown Richmond, Virginia. Up to 9 inches of rain fell in western North Carolina, prompting at least one road closure and the evacuation of a mobile home park. Nicole's remnant dumped heavy rain over the southern Appalachians on Veterans Day. A river gauge at Astor, Florida, approached levels seen during record flooding from Hurricane Ian, before dropping a tad. Johns River, which was only very slowly falling in the weeks after Ian. This heavy rain, lead to rises in the St. Nicole dumped from 2 to 7 inches of rain in central and northern Florida, including some areas soaked from Hurricane Ian. Petersburg (62 mph) and Jacksonville (60 mph) among other locations. Wind gusts of 60 mph or higher were clocked in Orlando (66 mph), St.
John (75 mph), Melbourne (72 mph) and Daytona Beach (70 mph). Winds gusted 70 mph or greater on Florida's Atlantic coast, including in Port St.
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