Rain from Ida is expected to test that pump system. The city relies on Entergy for backup power for the pumps that remove storm water from city streets. The message included a screen shot that cited вЂњcatastrophic transmission damageвЂќ for the power failure. The cityвЂ™s power supplier - Entergy - confirmed that the only power in the city was coming from generators, the cityвЂ™s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness said on Twitter. The entire city of New Orleans late Sunday was without power, according to city officials. People in Louisiana woke up to a monster storm after IdaвЂ™s top winds grew by 45 mph (72 kph) in five hours as the hurricane moved through some of the warmest ocean water in the world in the northern Gulf of Mexico. John Bel Edwards told The Associated Press. вЂњThis is going to be much stronger than we usually see and, quite frankly, if you had to draw up the worst possible path for a hurricane in Louisiana, it would be something very, very close to what weвЂ™re seeing,вЂќ Gov. The hurricane was churning through the far southern Louisiana wetlands, with the more than 2 million people living in and around New Orleans and Baton Rouge under threat. Ida made a second landfall about two hours later near Galliano. The rising ocean swamped the barrier island of Grand Isle as landfall came just to the west at Port Fourchon. Many people took to social media, pleading for boat rescues as the water rose. Significant flooding was reported late Sunday night in LaPlace, a community adjacent to Lake Pontchartrain, meteorologists in New Orleans said. It dropped hours later to a Category 1 storm with maximum winds of 95 mph (155 kph) as it crawled inland, its eye about 45 miles (70 kilometers) northwest of New Orleans. IdaвЂ™s 150-mph (230 kph) winds tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland U.S. Ida - a Category 4 storm - hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier, coming ashore about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of where Category 3 Katrina first struck land. The power outage in New Orleans heightened the cityвЂ™s vulnerability to flooding and left hundreds of thousands of people without air conditioning and refrigeration in sweltering summer heat. Prairieville is a suburb of Baton Rouge, LouisianaвЂ™s capital city. The person, who was not identified, was pronounced dead. The hurricane was blamed for at least one death: a person found dead following a report of a fallen tree on a home in Prairieville, the Ascension Parish SheriffвЂ™s Office said on Facebook. NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., knocking out power to all of New Orleans, blowing roofs off buildings and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River as it rushed from the Louisiana coast into one of the nationвЂ™s most important industrial corridors.

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