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is going to be so devastating even into the overnight hours. take the sun down and cool the atmosphere down a little bit and it allows the system and thunderstorm activity to diminish a little bit and over land it also helps. this hasn t been the ka is in the past several hours. this area around new orleans whether northward into st. hammond or westward back toward baton rouge or southward around neural upwards of 900,000 customers in the dark across the region. it really speaks to the incredible winds. in the morning hours, landfall gusts observed to 150 miles per hour. it only takes about a 60 to 70-mile-per-hour gust to bring down trees especially if the soil is saturated and what a lot of people are not keeping in mind in new orleans we ve had the second wettest year on record prior to ida making landfall this morning. over 60 inches has already fallen in the first, in nine months, eight months or so of the year. it speaks to how wet it s been. once the system passes through it ll

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