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Marrero / Barataria, Aug 31 (EFE / EPA).- At least four deaths in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, extensive but as yet unquantified damage amid widespread flooding and uncertainty over when electric power will be restored to more than a million customers is the scenario besetting the Gulf Coast region two days after Hurricane Ida blasted its way ashore.With members of the National Guard and the Red Cross deployed across the area and the help of other states like Texas and Florida, the priority search and rescue efforts are progressing and debris is being removed.Southeastern Louisiana, which President Joe Biden placed under an emergency declaration on Sunday, has been the zone hardest hit by the flooding and heavy winds of the powerful Category 5 storm that destroyed a good portion of the local electrical grid, especially in the New Orleans metropolitan area. (Camera: DAN ANDERSON). B-ROLL OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE HURRICANE IDA AFTER IT MOVES THROUGH MARRERO AND BARATARIA, LOUISIANA, US.
Jean Lafitte, Aug 31 (EFE/EPA).- At least four deaths in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, extensive but as yet unquantified damage amid widespread flooding and uncertainty over when electric power will be restored to more than a million customers is the scenario besetting the Gulf Coast region two days after Hurricane Ida blasted its way ashore.With members of the National Guard and the Red Cross deployed across the area and the help of other states like Texas and Florida, the priority search and rescue efforts are progressing and debris is being removed.Southeastern Louisiana, which President Joe Biden placed under an emergency declaration on Sunday, has been the zone hardest hit by the flooding and heavy winds of the powerful Category 5 storm that destroyed a good portion of the local electrical grid, especially in the New Orleans metropolitan area. (Camera: TANNEN MAURY).B-ROLL OF THE AERIAL SHOTS OF THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE HURRICANE IDA AFTER IT MOVES THROUGH THE CITY OF JEAN LAFITTE, IN LOUISIANA, US.
Miami, Aug 31 (EFE).- At least four deaths in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, extensive but as yet unquantified damage amid widespread flooding and uncertainty over when electric power will be restored to more than a million customers is the scenario besetting the Gulf Coast region two days after Hurricane Ida blasted its way ashore.(CAMERA:Tannen Maury)
Streets in New Orleans' French Quarter are covered with debris as powerful Hurricane Ida batters the southern US state of Louisiana, leaving at least one person dead and knocking out power. IMAGES
Satellite images captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows "extremely dangerous" Category 4 Hurricane Ida nearing the coast of Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico. The hurricane made landfall later in the day, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region. IMAGES