it was evident as we were standing out here experiencing ida yesterday, that this was for houma a wind event, a severe damaging wind event. there was some thought that it would be a water event. but now as we re out here seeing the light of day taking a walk around houma, this direction, it is nearly every direction that you look at when you re in downtown houma. you see some form of destruction. you just see how badly houma took a beating from hurricane ida. back to you. absolutely, jason. you really were in it for hours yesterday and now seeing what it looks like as the winds have started to die down. it is going to be a pretty devastating picture that is going to emerge. thank you. jason carroll is in houma, louisiana. let s go to nadia rommera live in new orleans without power and what is the latest. reporter: completely without power. you heard jason talk about that
that s the city of new orleans. i can tell you, we are working closely with them. the storm was moving so fast. ic i heard earlier we re not out of the woods here. the city of new orleans it s dark here. i m looking out the headquarters window now and it s completely dark. the hurricane risk reduction system around new orleans it performed as designed as indicated. this is why, you know, all the comparisons to katrina 16 years ago, except the lessons from katrina with the investments you re talking about, right. now we re talking about a storm that is a wind event and not a water event. at least for new orleans because of the big corps. of engineers
side of the storm, the rain continues to be at eastern side of the storm. i think in portions of louisiana another 10 inches, it has been raining for a long time there today, we could see this rain pile up, that will run through the ohio river valley to pennsylvania and midatlantic, this rain will be a story that sticks with us. trace: it is turning out not to be a wind event but a water event. adam great work thank you so much. back to you as news warrants, we should know when he talked about 115 miles per hour. 111 miles per hour below you get to a category 2, hurry we re close to hurricane ida becoming a category 4, it is almost 9 hours since it first hit land, still a category 3. hopefully in coming minutes or hours. you will see this drop to a
easily fall over on my house. i have no power. i can t make phone calls out. this is terrifying. i i don t even i can t even explain this. i mean my pets are absolutely i mean they re all underneath the bed. i m not going to get under the bed, but, you know yeah, where are you hunkering down in your house? right now i m in my master bedroom. i m here, and i m trying to stay away from the windows and stuff. and if i need be, you know, we ll go into the bathroom and hunker down in the bathtub. gosh. you re alone. you re on a walker. you re seeing trees down. it s ridiculous. is this more of a wind event or water event where you are? it s both. it s both. i mean for a while it was just wind, and then about not even an hour ago, pam, the water came in with it. and now we re still getting the water and the rain, and these are 80-mile-an-hour winds. these are strong winds.
interstate. i m scared. i m more scared of the interstate than staying in the house right here. so emergency officials say this is going to be a severe wind event. this is going to be a severe flooding event, severe water event. that s can why you ve got the governor, you ve got the sheriff saying time is running out, if you re going to leave, the time is now. i hope people heed this warning. new orleans sits 55 miles east of houma. look, it s so close, officials are urging residents to take this threat seriously, as they anticipate big flooding, damning winds up to 110 miles an hour. what i m told is that this storm in so way will be weakening. there will be and already no signs again that this storm will weaken. and there is always an opportunity for the storm to