Hurricane Ida claims its first victims, leaving hundreds stranded in floodwaters

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2021/08/30

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Weather of Arabia - On the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,800 people in America, Hurricane Ida came to claim its first victims, cut off electricity to thousands of homes, and left hundreds trapped in flood waters that reached a height of more than 3 meters, with the emergence of Reports of trapped victims.

 

Late Sunday (August 29) the authorities announced the first death from the tornado, a 60-year-old Louisiana resident who succumbed to his injuries after a tree fell on his home.

 

Hurricane Ida, which hit southern Mississippi and Louisiana one day, caused a power outage throughout the American city of New Orleans, while causing winds of more than 242 kilometers per hour, and uprooted the roofs of buildings.

Meanwhile, hundreds of residents who were unable to respond to the mandatory evacuation order before the storm for financial reasons were stranded in the area, surrounded by flood waters exceeding 3 meters in height, with the area affected by strong winds that made it impossible for evacuation efforts to reach them. It is dangerous to use boats in these weather conditions.

 

This left the trapped residents in a panic, in stormy conditions they had never encountered before.

 

 

The storm was so strong that the Mississippi River flowed in the opposite direction.

 

One hospital, which had no generators, was forced to move ICU patients whose oxygen was manually pumped into their bodies by doctors and nurses.

 

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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