down. to see that delayed maybe weeks of getting back open, the french quarter and people back in town is just another blow. so this thing is going to be measured for years. we always talked about before and after katrina. this will be a new set in history that we will gauge further storms on. are you getting a sense of the scope of damage across the state from ida? well, i just got word, a report a little while ago, that a community on the west bank of plaquemines parish has been inundated with 3 to 4 feet of water. those homes have flooded a few times since katrina in a couple storms, so that s really tough for those people that just have gotten back after flooding two or three times from hurricanes to know that that community is also under water again. those are the kinds of things we are still rebuilding in lake
rescue as soon as it is safe in the morning. it sounds like this hurricane is going to give search and rescue crews more than enough to work through. yeah, absolutely. the good news is, the parishes are well organized, along with the sheriff and parish workers to be able to lead those rescue teams coming in on where they need to focus. so they re well rehearsed. they train for this every year prior to hurricane season. but the enormity of the past is going to be very large. to be able to get out to assess the damage to the electric grid, as well as to go to each home, because every place that was evacuated, now you have to go to every one of those places and see if people need help that did not have any power. so this is going to be an enormous task. and all the health and national
you know, not only flash flooding is going to be an issue into the overnight hours but also significant damage and when you re speaking of winds of this magnitude at landfall the national hurricane center often says the area will be uninhabitable for a period of weeks to months. we know that damage in place, that certainly has already taken place along the southern coast of louisiana. you take a look at the mullet plier effect and people often think a category increase from 1 to 2 is a linear increase. only a one category increase. but the damage impacts are about a 10 x increase in the damage impacts and bring the winds up to 150 miles per hour as ida had at peak intensity at landfall that is 256 times more damage than category 1 at landfall. it speaks to the historic nature of the storm system not only in intense but the landfall. new orleans and louisiana now has had back-to-back years with 150-mile-per-hour landfalls. back in 2020 and now the only
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shoutout to the men and women that work at the national hurricane center before this was even named, they had a beat on this storm. they knew the intensity in the different stages and had that cone of uncertainty across areas of louisiana. it didn t deviate much. they save aid will the of lives and gave good lead time for power crews and evacuations to take place. now, why do we always hype the difference between a category two or three? it s not what you think when it comes to damage. you know, you have a category one, winds at 75 miles per hour. damage. it s just a little greater category 2. no. you can t think of it linear. it s logrythmic. winds at 150 miles per hour. it s not just category 4. it s 256 times the amount of damage that category 1 would provide. again, it s staggering when you think of that. let s look at all of the flash flood warnings that are in