Hurricane Ida has pounded Louisiana, flooding wide areas, plunging 1million New Orleans homes into darkness and reversing the flow of the Mississippi.
, exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina battered the coast, claiming 1,800 lives.declared a major disaster in Louisiana, ordering federal assistance to bolster recovery efforts. But power to more than 1million homes and businesses in New Orleans was knocked out on Sunday after transmission lines to the city failed.
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