Hundreds of thousands remain without power in Louisiana more than a week after Ida made landfall
A damaged electrical substation left in the wake of Hurricane Ida as it still lay on Saturday in Grand Isle, Louisiana, near where the storm made landfall on August 29. Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images The death toll in Louisiana from Hurricane Ida rose to 13 on Sunday — one week after the storm made landfall at Category 4 strength — after a 74-year-old New Orleans man was confirmed to have died due to heat exhaustion amid the ongoing power outages.
With the area suffering under a heat advisory, New Orleans has been transporting people to air conditioned shelters beyond the city and state. FEMA has announced that evacuation aid was available to area residents who need to relocate to hotels to escape the heat. Parts of southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi, including Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Gulfport, are under a heat advisory Monday, as high temperatures will be in the upper 80s and lower 90s, with a heat index between 100 and 105 degrees.In addition, a flash flood watch is in effect in the region from noon through the evening Monday as slow-moving thunderstorms are expected to develop.
That isn’t the only spill caused by Ida. The AP notes that three oil slicks could be seen on Saturday near where divers apparently discovered the broken pipeline. Two other instances of oil or gas spills have been detected elsewhere in the region, at a Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery along the Mississippi River, and at a now-closed wellhead five miles from the Bay Marchand spill.
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