PART 5 • 9/1-3/21 IDA AFTERMATH - LA, AL, NY, NJ, MD

PART 5 • 9/1-3/21 IDA AFTERMATH - LA, AL, NY, NJ, MD AFTERMATH

¹¹ "NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Commercial flights resumed in New Orleans and power returned to parts of the business district Thursday, four days after Hurricane Ida slammed into the Gulf Coast, but electricity, drinking water and fuel remained scarce across much of a sweltering Louisiana...[although running water was quickly returning in the city]."¹¹

¹¹"In seven parishes, at least 95% of customers remained without power Thursday. Only 35,000 of the 405,000 homes and businesses in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish had power Thursday, according to the poweroutage.us website. Statewide, about 900,000 customers were without electricity, down from about 1.1 million."¹¹ [9/2/21].

¹¹Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the state were told to boil their water before using it.
Evacuees who were considering returning home to Terrebonne Parish were warned by emergency officials on Twitter that “there are no shelters, no electricity, very limited resources for food, gasoline and supplies and absolutely no medical services.”
Louisiana’s largest hospital system, Ochsner Health, was considering opening a field hospital somewhere in Terrebonne or Lafourche parish because the shuttering of most of the hospitals in the area removed about 250 to 300 beds."¹¹

¹¹"...more than 220,000 people already have registered for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and 22,000 have applied for a federal program to place tarps on damaged roofs."¹¹ [9/2/21]

¹¹"Power should be restored to most customers around the Baton Rouge area by Sept. 8 after workers finish assessing damage, Entergy Louisiana President Philip May said Thursday. Damage assessments are not as far along in the harder-hit regions, so Entergy said it has no timetable for getting service to those areas, which include New Orleans.
Gasoline shortages were also a problem for people trying to run generators and waiting in drive-thru lines for food and water. The lines for gas stretched for blocks in many places from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
President Joe Biden also ordered the release of extra fuel from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ensure a steady supply. He said he would also provide utilities with satellite images to help restore power."¹¹

⁹"Four nursing home residents in Louisiana died [14 required hospitalizations] after being evacuated during Hurricane Ida to a warehouse where conditions were later determined to be unhealthy and unsafe, according to state health officials who said Thursday that they had launched an investigation into the facility....A total of 843 residents from seven nursing facilities — all operated by one owner [Bob Dean] — were moved to the Waterbury Companies, Inc. warehouse in the town of Independence before Ida made landfall, Louisiana Department of Health spokesperson Aly Neel said... Independence Police Chief Frank Edwards told WVUE-TV that the warehouse was set up to receive 300 to 350 people, but the number quickly ballooned to more than 800.
The Medicare.gov website rates six of the seven nursing facilities with one star out of five, the lowest possible rating. The remaining nursing home gets two stars, still considered below average. Five of the nursing homes specifically got one star for “quality of resident care,” under the ranking system.
...all had been evacuated and taken to hospitals, nursing homes and special needs shelters, said Dr. Joe Kanter, Louisiana’s chief medical officer. Fourteen required hospitalization."⁹

¹¹ Per US NEWS, AP, IDA killed "at least 46 people from Maryland to Connecticut. Eleven people in New York City drowned in basement apartments.”¹¹

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SOURCES
¹"Grand Isle, La Drone video of Hurricane Ida Damage whole Island- Category 4 4k"https://youtu.be/4CYPuzlotpk

² NBC NEW YORK
IDA Floods NYC & Fatalities 9/2/21 (27) report (not the actual vid title)
https://youtu.be/--6ADB8v2lM

³ "IDA HITS NYC & FLASH FLOODING.." Fatalities 9/2/21 (37)
https://youtu.be/2Y3We4tDZIo

⁴ CBC NEWS
NY & NJ REPORT 9/2 (Damages)
https://youtu.be/U_sicJwD1YI

⁵WWLTV
IDA AFTERMATH DAY 5 COVERAGE (9/3/21)
https://youtu.be/yK3dx8cO7f8

⁶KHOU11
HOUSTON PROVIDED AID TO IDA VICTIMS (9/2-3/21)
https://youtu.be/X_4CQm2HF8s

⁷ FOX 10 NEWS
MOBILE, AL BRINGS SUPPLIES TO LOUISIANA 9/3/21 & COOKS MEALS
https://youtu.be/SYCDPt9j0OM

⁸ PIX 11 VID 9/2/21
RECORD RAINFALL https://pix11.com/news/local-news/rainfall-totals-how-much-did-ida-bring-to-ny-nj/

⁹ ARTICLE 9/2/21
"Ida deaths: Nursing home residents die after evacuation in Louisiana"
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2021/09/02/Ida-deaths-Nursing-home-residents-die-after-evacuation/stories/202109020200

¹⁰ 6 DEATHS IN LA/AL 9/1/21
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/hurricane-ida-live-updates-8-31-n1278111

¹¹ US NEWS article 9/2/21
"POWER RESTORED AFTER IDA..."
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-09-02/hurricane-idas-aftermath-recovery-uneven-across-louisiana

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