HURRICANE IDA

No such thing as a category 6 hurricane

The new director of the National Hurricane Center is a man with plenty of experience calling big storms.

A new study says that back-to-back hurricanes that hit the same general place in the United States seem to be happening more often.

Ten Filipino men who worked for a major offshore oil industry employer under federally granted visas claim in a federal lawsuit they were treated like prisoners at a company bunkhouse and that some of them were abandoned there when Hurricane Ida struck the Louisiana Gulf Coast in August 2021.

A Louisiana nursing home owner is facing a new lawsuit over evacuating residents to a squalid warehouse to ride out Hurricane Ida in 2021.

People who work in hurricane-affected areas often talk about the stress the long rebuilding process can take on people and the anxiety stirred up during hurricane season.

The tropics have come to life here in the month of September. As we often tell you, the actual peak of the season is Sep 10, so, we are just now halfway done with the action.

Global warming is producing more extreme weather.

Federal meteorologists say this hurricane season may not be quite as busy as they initially thought, but it should still be more active than normal.

Ten months after Hurricane Ida damaged a museum celebrating New Orleans' African American parading culture, the Backstreet Cultural Museum is reopening.

As another hurricane season gets started, many Native American residents in southeast Louisiana are still struggling to recover from last year's Hurricane Ida.

Here are a few tips to get you going ahead of the next Atlantic hurricane season.

Meteorologists are retiring the name Ida from the list of Atlantic hurricane names.

2021 was the third most active hurricane season in terms of named storms on record.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is allocating nearly $3 billion in disaster relief to cover recovery efforts by multiple state and local governments.

Damage wrought by Hurricane Ida in the U.S. state of Louisiana and the flash floods that hit Europe last summer have helped make 2021 one of the most expensive years for natural disasters.

A Louisiana task force is working to gather vaults and caskets disrupted from their burial sites by Hurricane Ida and rebury them.

Transit officials and experts say this summer’s storms were the latest reminders that more needs to be done to prepare the East Coast’s vital transit systems in the face of more extreme and unpredictable weather caused by climate change.

A month after Hurricane Ida, small communities along Louisiana’s southeastern coast are still without power or running water.

Smoke and flames shot up the side of the Superdome's roof after a pressure washer being used to clean the roof of the New Orleans arena caught fire.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits moved up last week to 332,000 from a pandemic low, a sign that worsening COVID-19 infections may have slightly increased layoffs.

Bands of heavy rain have been pummeling parts of the Alabama Gulf Coast and the Florida Panhandle.

A sad and bizarre story is confirmed.

Even though 2020 has had more named storms through Sept. 8, 2021′s storms have unfortunately been stronger and have lasted longer.

Officials have raised Hurricane Ida's death toll in Louisiana to 26.

Louisiana health officials are revoking the licenses of seven nursing homes that were evacuated to a warehouse where residents died after Hurricane Ida amid conditions deemed squalid and unsafe.

The White House is asking Congress to approve an additional $24 billion in spending to handle the costs of Hurricane Ida and other natural disasters.

More than 400,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana still don’t have power nine days after Hurricane Ida.

Lawmakers from both parties say haunting images of surging rivers, flooded roads and tornado damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida show the need to upgrade the nation’s aging infrastructure network.

Jeanene Farrior and her family were inside her house as Hurricane Ida wreaked havoc in Hammond, Louisiana-- one of the hardest-hit cities 45 miles east of Baton Rouge.

Officials in New Orleans say they will thoroughly inspect senior living apartments in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida after finding people living in buildings without working generators that trapped residents in wheelchairs in dark, sweltering upper floors.

President Joe Biden has approved major disaster declarations greenlighting federal aid for people six New Jersey counties and five New York counties affected by devastating flooding last week from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

Joe Sobol, owner of Big Easy Construction in New Orleans, has bad news for homeowners who’ve been calling about roofs damaged by Hurricane Ida.

Lawmakers from both parties say haunting images of surging rivers, flooded roads and tornado damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida show the need to upgrade the nation’s aging infrastructure network.

When Hurricane Ida swept ashore, the town of Houma was the first major population center in its path.

As residents and businesses across New Jersey spent the holiday weekend trying to clean up damage from last week’s storm, rescue workers resumed the search for two friends whose car was caught up in the floodwaters.

The destruction left by the remnants of Hurricane Ida have officials and experts agreeing that infrastructure including roads, sewers and housing in New York and New Jersey must be quickly improved.

A 16-year-old girl says she heard vehicles crashing all around the pickup truck where she and her mother were trapped after a highway collapsed in rural Mississippi.

Parishioners of a church outside New Orleans were surprised to find electricity had been restored overnight, allowing for an indoor service on Sunday.

President Joe Biden will visit all three 9/11 memorial sites to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and pay his respects to the nearly 3,000 people killed that day.

Flood-stricken families and business owners across the Northeast are hauling waterlogged belongings to the curb and scraping away noxious mud as cleanup from Ida moves into high gear.

The dismal state of power in Hurricane Ida’s wake is a distressingly familiar scenario for Entergy Corp. Louisiana’s largest electrical utility has grappled with other widespread outages after numerous previous hurricanes.

The energy company that is providing power to Louisiana says full restoration of electricity to hurricane-battered areas outside New Orleans could take until the end of the month.

Less than a week after Hurricane Ida battered the Gulf Coast, President Joe Biden walked the streets of a hardhit Louisiana neighborhood on Friday and told residents “I know you’re hurting."

The peak of hurricane season is just around the corner and it shows out in the tropics.

Police are going door to door and drawing up lists of the missing as the death toll edges higher from the catastrophic flooding set off in the Northeast by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

Power should be restored to almost all of New Orleans by the middle of next week.

Many people are asking why no one foretold of the deadly ramifications of Hurricane Ida's remnants in the Northeast, but some did.

A critical port that serves as the primary support hub for the Gulf of Mexico’s deepwater offshore oil and gas industry sustained less damage from Hurricane Ida’s direct hit than initially feared and should be able to return to working operations “in the near future."

Meteorologists say natural and man-made forces made Ida deadly and devastating in the New York and New Jersey area even though the weakened storm made landfall more than 1,000 miles away.

Since Hurricane Ida, life in Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish is a mix of frustration and a little adventure.

The National Weather Service says a tornado that ripped through Mullica Hill, New Jersey, is believed to have had an EF-3 rating, with winds of up to 150 miles per hour.

Following Hurricane Ida, mutual aid networks sprang into action to supplement the more established relief services from federal and local governments, and charities.

Hurricane Ida may not pack the strong winds it once had when it hit Louisiana, but it’s still dumping an insane amount of rain in its path, including on New York City.

New York City officials warned people to stay inside Wednesday as the remnants of Ida moved through with heavy rain.

President Joe Biden is pledging robust federal help for the Northeastern and Gulf states battered by Hurricane Ida and for Western states beset by wildfires.

A Louisiana man who built a levee around his home after Hurricane Katrina thought he was winning the battle against Hurricane Ida.

The White House says President Joe Biden will visit Louisiana on Friday to survey storm damage from Hurricane Ida.

A new report from the United Nations weather agency finds the world is getting several times more weather disasters than in the 1970s.

Main Street in the Louisiana town of Houma resembles a canyon of rubble after Hurricane Ida.

Residents of Louisiana communities hit hard by Hurricane Ida are seeing small signs of progress amid the need for a monumental recovery.

Response to disasters such as Hurricane Ida falls primarily to state and local officials, but the federal government is playing an important support role.

Ida caused mass devastation on Grand Isle, a Louisiana town on a narrow barrier island that bore the full power of the Category 4 storm Sunday.

The U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan and fearsome Hurricane Ida drew viewers to cable channels that focused on the unfolding events.

Heavy rains from Hurricane Ida have forced Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee to cancel as organizers say the waterlogged festival grounds are unsafe for driving or camping.

Response to disasters such as Hurricane Ida falls primarily to state and local officials, but the federal government is playing an important support role.

A Louisiana family encountered a dolphin swimming in floodwater after Hurricane Ida left many areas of Louisiana devasted.

Louisiana communities battered by Hurricane Ida are facing a new danger: the possibility of weeks without power in the stifling, late-summer heat.

Oil companies began gradually to restart some of their refineries in Louisiana, and key fuel pipelines fully reopened, providing hopeful signs that the region’s crucial energy industry can soon recover from the blow of Hurricane Ida.

A man in his 70s is presumed dead after an alligator attack in Louisiana.

Two people were killed and at least 10 others were injured after a roadway collapsed in Mississippi on Monday night.

Louisiana communities battered by Hurricane Ida are now dealing with the possibility of weeks without power in the stifling, late-summer heat.

Fully vaccinated players will be required to get tested for COVID-19 weekly instead of every 14 days as part of the revised protocols for the regular season agreed upon by the NFL and NFLPA.

A storied New Orleans jazz site where a young Louis Armstrong once worked toppled when Ida blew through Louisiana as one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the U.S. The Karnofsky Tailor Shop where a young Louis Armstrong worked collapsed Sunday during the storm.

The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that protect New Orleans held up against Hurricane Ida’s fury, but costly upgrades to the city's flood protection system couldn't spare some neighboring communities from the rising water.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday that state and local emergency responders conducted 20 rescues from flooded areas in the state’s three coastal counties.

Search and rescue teams loaded up gear and rolled out of Orlando early Monday to deploy to Louisiana after the landfall of Hurricane Ida.

Hurricane Ida made landfall Sunday, wreaking havoc on the Louisiana coast, and leaving major cities like New Orleans without power.

Sure, Hurricane Ida looks an awful lot like Hurricane Katrina, bearing down on the same part of Louisiana on the same calendar date.

Drivers in Central Florida may soon feel the impacts of Hurricane Ida, in the form of rising gas prices.

Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks have brought hundreds of people trapped by Hurricane Ida’s floodwaters to safety.

Tropical Storm Nora is dropping heavy rains along the Gulf of California after weakening from a hurricane that set off floods and landslides on Mexico’s Pacific coast, caused havoc in Puerta Vallarta and left at least one dead and seven missing.

With more than 1 million customers in Louisiana and Mississippi having lost power, Hurricane Ida is sure to take a toll on the energy, chemical and shipping industries that have major hubs along the Gulf Coast.

Robert Owens felt defeated and helpless Sunday as he waited for one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S. to approach Louisiana's capital city.

Federal officials say hundreds of emergency responders are in place in Louisiana and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has power restoration experts and generators at the ready as Hurricane Ida bashes the region.

Hurricane Ida tied for fifth strongest storm to hit the United States based on wind speed, but the whopper of a hurricane is far more than that.

Hurricane Ida is expected to make landfall in Louisiana as a dangerous Category 4 storm Sunday.

Hurricane Ida is approaching Louisiana as a dangerous Category 4 storm Sunday afternoon.

The rain chances won’t be zero, but they will be on the lower side as Hurricane Ida passes well to the west of Florida.

The rapid intensification of Hurricane Ida continued overnight. Hurricane Ida’s maximum sustained winds were 150 mph with wind gusts of 185 mph at landfall.

Hurricane Nora has weakened to a tropical storm as it causes floods and landslides along Mexico’s Pacific coast.

A Louisiana sheriff’s office has reported the first death from Hurricane Ida.

Sure, Hurricane Ida looks an awful lot like Hurricane Katrina, bearing down on the same part of Louisiana on the same calendar date.

Companies evacuated oil and gas platforms south of Louisiana ahead of Hurricane Ida but a far greater worry was potential damage to refineries and petrochemical plants in its projected path from flooding and storm surge.

As all eyes are on Hurricane Ida, utility crews from Florida are preparing to head out and help with power restoration efforts after the storm.

Hurricane Ida has entered the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to strengthen significantly Saturday and Sunday.

New Orleans finds itself in the path of Hurricane Ida 16 years to the day after 2005's Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic flooding.

Residents of south Louisiana are bracing for the approach of what is expected to be a rapidly intensifying Hurricane Ida.