it s good to have you with us. i suppose this is a real test of the flood defences for the first time since hurricane katrina back in 20 2005. absolutely. what we have here is the storm is tied for the strongest storms ever hit louisiana with our record keeping going back to 1851 so over 170 years of data and this is right there, it s tied with two other storms. 0ne tied with two other storms. one of those happened last year, hurricane laura, and the other was in 1856 called the last island hurricane and both of those came onshore with 150 mile an hour sustained winds with higher gusts and this storm is really wreaking havoc on this entire region. since then, i mean, it made landfall about 12 hours ago now and it s currently situated between baton rouge and new orleans and i happen to be in baton rouge right now. the winds are down to about 105 mph, that s a
produced 16 years ago, - down further inland. katrina - produced 16 years ago, considering it is the 16th anniversary to the day, katrina produced 59 tornadoes, what is the tornado at risk this time with hurricane ida and how does that all that work within hurricane? normally with the right front quadrant, given the track and, on the right hand side of that if you are facing the direction it is moving on, that is an area with a lot of wind shear and there is quite a lot of tornado activity under that. i have not heard of any tornado touchdowns yet, that will be something that we will hear about probably later in more matter of fact. most tornadoes embedded within harriet cains, while they can be very damaging and deadly under certain circumstances, they re certain circumstances, they re usually certain circumstances, they re usually not the worst tornadoes we see. embedded within hurricanes. we have a lot of other concerns, thatis we have a lot of other concerns, that is just one o
like, power outages and some minor flooding. worst case, i don t even want to think of that. for those who stayed, like ella and charles with their newborn son, storm preparation has become a way of life. every year, it s on the back of your mind that a big storm could and probably will come. each year, the number of storms increases, their intensity increases. the governor of the state has warned this could be an historic hurricane. we re absolutely doing everything that we can now to get people to take those last minute steps, but really we asked people to make sure that when they went to bed last night they were prepared to ride out the storm and that they would go to bed where they intended to ride out the storm. the region s new storm defences, which failed during hurricane katrina in 2005 on this exact date, will be tested like never before. but even with protections in place, ida is expected to have a catastrophic impact.
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