Live Updates of Hurricane Ida: All Power Lost in New Orleans When Massive Storm Strikes Louisiana | US News

The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans calls on residents to “limit the use of water” at home, to reduce the amount of wastewater that needs to be disposed of, and to help prevent wastewater backups.

Due to power outages, the board currently uses “self-generated energy sources” to drain rainwater and pump drinking water into the city. However, there is no safety power to operate sewer pumping stations. “We are evaluating how many of the 84 stations are affected, but the number can be very significant,” SWB New Orleans said.

The hospital that lost power is the Thibodaux regional health system in Lafourche parish. Andrea Gallo, of the New Orleans announcer, reports that a backup generator failed, meaning staff had to manually ventilate some patients. It is unclear how many patients were affected, but it appears the power generators are working again.

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Energy company Entergy has confirmed that power has been cut across the city, according to an update posted on Twitter by the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

The message describes “catastrophic damage to the transmission.”

The storm and winds of Hurricane Ida were so strong that they reversed the flow of the mighty Mississippi River. The same phenomenon happened during Hurricane Katrina, but it is “extremely strange,” USGS hydrologist Scott Perrien told CNN.

He said the river level rose about seven feet due to the rise, shifting the flow from 2 feet per second to about half a foot per second in the opposite direction.

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Oliver Laughland, head of The Guardian’s southern U.S. office, reports from New Orleans whenever communications allow. The city has just issued a flood warning until midnight. It’s 8.30pm there when you write.

There are reports that one of the hospitals in a coastal area of ​​Louisiana had lost all power to its Covid intensive care unit and the shutdown manually ventilated several patients. We will provide you with more details as confirmed.

Welcome to our continued coverage of Hurricane Ida after it fell off the coast of Louisiana.

Here’s what we know so far:

• Hurricane Ida has wiped out all power in the city of New Orleans after touching down late Sunday morning in Port Fourchon. The only power in the city comes from generators.
• Ida is one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States and it has wreaked havoc, tearing down roofs of buildings, knocking down trees and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River.
• Exactly 16 years have passed since Hurricane Katrina, the catastrophic hurricane that killed more than 1,800 on the Gulf Coast in 2005.