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New Orleans (AFP) - New Orleans, still scarred by the devastation wrought 16 years ago by Hurricane Katrina, held its breath as Ida bore down this week. But this time, the city's flood defenses prevailed. In the wake of the 2005 storm that killed over 1,800 people and submerged whole swaths of New Orleans, the US government spent $14.5 billion on levees, pumps and other protections for the city and nearby suburbs. "Ida came onshore with everything that was advertised: the surge, the rain, the wind," Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards told a briefing Monday. "The good news, first, is all of ou...
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Laplace (United States) (AFP) - Seeing her ceiling caved in, her garage door smashed and the basketball hoop overturned in her yard, Lxchelle Arceneaux looked on with despair Monday at the devastation left behind by powerful Hurricane Ida, which swept through her town near New Orleans the night before. "My children were terrified," the 46-year-old told AFP in LaPlace, Louisiana, dressed all in blue and standing at the front door of her wrecked home. "I never heard wind like this before". Arceneaux, her husband and children took shelter in a bedroom after Ida -- which blasted ashore with winds ...
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New Orleans (AFP) - Powerful Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana, leaving at least one dead and knocking out power for more than a million people, including the whole of New Orleans. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm on Sunday, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but had weakened to a tropical storm early Monday. The storm knocked out power for all of New Orleans, with more than a million customers across Louisiana without power, according to outage tracker PowerOutage.US. "We have now lost power, citywide! This is ...
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New Orleans (AFP) - Chester Lastie clearly recalls Hurricane Katrina, which devastated his neighborhood in eastern New Orleans, 16 years ago to the day. The memories are made all the more vivid by the gusts of wind from Hurricane Ida currently battering his white house. "We were sitting in the yard about 11:00 when the levees broke" on August 29, 2005, he tells AFP. He quickly jumped in his truck and headed for the Claiborne Avenue Bridge, high up, where he watched the elements unleash themselves on the Lower Ninth Ward, a working-class neighborhood with a mostly Black population. He and a fri...
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Surfside Beach (Etats-Unis) (AFP) - Toni Capretta stands on a patch of Texas's Gulf coast where just seven months earlier the dunes were nearly her height. Now they are gone. Her town of Surfside Beach comes alive during the summer months, when Texans flock to the coast, but the landscape's saving grace is straight out of a winter wonderland: the beloved Christmas tree. The recycled evergreens are used to construct new dune barriers to protect the sensitive area from the ravages of powerful storms. Every winter, the Save our Beach association, which Capretta heads, gathers hundreds of voluntee...
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Lake Charles (United States) (AFP) - Daniel Schexnayder has water up to his ankles as he stands outside, surveying damage to his home inflicted by Hurricane Laura six weeks before Louisiana was pummeled by a second storm, Delta.But he still does not believe in climate change."I'm on the other side. I'm with Trump," the 58-year-old carpenter said only hours after Delta had rumbled destructively through the tiny Louisiana town of Iowa, just outside Lake Charles. And yet scientists agree that global warming is a proven phenomenon, caused by man and rendering hurricanes both more frequent and mor...
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Lake Charles (United States) (AFP) - After being pummelled by two hurricanes in six weeks, residents in this Louisiana city don't even know which storm to blame for the area's widespread damage."Honestly, I can't tell what was from what hurricane," sheriff's deputy Aymond said of the debris littering the streets of Lake Charles."It's like when somebody gets beat up, and already has a black eye... you don't know if this black eye was from the last time or not," he said.Louisiana has received more than its share of punches recently, especially the oil refinery city of Lake Charles, which was sma...
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Lake Charles (United States) (AFP) - As Hurricane Delta hurtles towards the US south coast, residents of Lake Charles are fleeing and for many it's the second time in two months they have had to leave faced with a potentially devastating storm.The city, in Louisiana's southwest, is still in disarray, with roofs ripped off houses, trees uprooted and streets littered with debris -- damage caused by Hurricane Laura that packed winds of record-breaking speeds.On Thursday, many were heading for the exits, leaving their homes and hoping for the best as a new and strengthening hurricane churned towar...
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