Photo Courtesy of Associated Press/ Eric Gay
On Sunday, Category 4 Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana pummeling the shoreline with devastating winds, dangerous storm surges and reversed the flow of the Mississippi River.
The Blaze reported that the hurricane which hit Port Fourchon caused devastating damages to the state, coming in precisely 16 years after Hurricane Katrina also wrecked Louisiana.
The storm held powerful winds of 150 mph, making it one of only three hurricanes that have touched down in Louisiana with sustained winds of that magnitude.
Ida also caused an extraordinary anomaly when the Mississippi River temporarily flowed from south to north after the storm surge forced it to flow in reverse as exuberant amounts of seawater came ashore.
Data from the U.S. Geological Survey shows that a river gauge at Belle Chasse, in the southeast part of New Orleans, was able to capture the moment.
“This is not the kind of storm that we normally get,” Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said.
“This is going to be much stronger than we usually see and, quite frankly, if you had to draw up the worst possible path for a hurricane in Louisiana, it would be something very, very close to what we’re seeing,” he added.
Edwards requested for the President to declare the hurricane a major disaster saying, “Hurricane Ida is one of the strongest storms ever to hit Louisiana. It is our goal to assist our local agencies and the citizens of the state as quickly as possible, and we have pre-positioned search and rescue teams, boats and other assets to begin helping people as soon as it is safe.”
Videos showed how the hurricane flooded and destroyed homes, hospitals, and buildings and tore up different parts of the state.
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According to regulators, nearly 600,000 people in Louisiana do not have electricity, and over 95% of the oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut down and will cause gas prices to surge.