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In the seaside city of Puerto Vallarta -- a popular destination for Mexican and foreign visitors -- shopkeepers board up windows as Hurricane Lidia approaches. Lidia has become an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm as it heads toward beach resorts on Mexico's Pacific coast, threatening to bring flooding and mudslides. IMAGES
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
New Orleans, Aug 29 (EFE/EPA).- Hurricane Ida, one of the most powerful storms ever to strike the continental US, packing winds of 150 miles per hour, on Sunday blasted ashore along the Louisiana coast a region on tenterhooks due to fears that New Orleans could experience a deadly replay of the devastation wrought exactly 16 years ago by Hurricane Katrina.New Orleans, which finds itself on the northeastern edge of the storm, the most dangerous zone due to the higher winds and increased rainfall normally associated with that portion of Northern Hemisphere hurricanes, is already being battered by Ida, which, according to the National Weather Service, could bring "catastrophic" storm surge, "extreme" winds, flooding and damaging wind gusts throughout the region. (Camera: DAN ANDERSON).B-ROLL OF THE CITY NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, US, UPON THE ARRIVAL OF HURRICANE IDA.
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
Heavy rain batters New Orleans as Hurricane Ida strengthens to a Category 4 storm and is projected to make landfall 16 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. IMAGES
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