parts of california. >> i didn't know where i was, whose house was what. it was just a wasteland. >> we're just grateful to be alive. we've got each other. >> reporter: the 2021 hurricane season, while not as prolific as the record-shattering 2020 was still an overachiever. there were 21 named storms including hurricanes. four were category 3 or higher. category 4 hurricane ida covering louisiana. >> we're looking at imminent landfall of this storm. >> the deadly hurricane flattening entire communities, leaving millions of people in louisiana without power. some outages lasting for months. ida then slashed a path of destruction into the northeast, dumped up to ten inches of rain in some parts of the region. some areas seeing one-night all-record totals in the month