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Hurricane Ida’s path of destruction is visible from location.
Ida made landfall reach Port Fourchon, Louisiana, as a Class 4 hurricane on Sunday (Aug. 29), 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina hit the Bayou Teach.
Ida featured sustained winds of round 150 mph (240 kph) when it got here ashore, and its torrential rain and extremely effective storm surge prompted flooding alongside principal of the Louisiana hover. The hurricane is identified to beget killed two of us, even supposing that toll will nearly certainly upward push as rescue workers and cleanup crews fabricate their scheme into more and more affected areas, experts stutter.
Hurricane Ida from location: Photos from astronauts and satellites
Ida additionally prompted customary strength outages. Better than a million of us, at the side of many of us in Novel Orleans, remained with out electrical energy as of Tuesday (Aug. 31), The Novel York Times reported.
We’re now getting a chook’s-leer glance of among the hurt Ida has wrought, because of the forward of-and-after photography snapped by Maxar Technologies’ WorldView-2 satellite. The “after” photography, which WorldView-2 captured on Tuesday (Aug. 31), depict storm-battered Louisiana cities and towns comparable to Houma, Jean Lafitte and La Situation.
The Aug. 31 photography of Houma and La Situation, for instance, impress dwelling complexes and other buildings with roofs torn to kindling by Ida’s fury. And floodwaters submerge the streets and yards of Jean Lafitte in every other image taken that day.
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Click thru the gallery above to explore all of the forward of-and-after satellite photography.
Ida weakened into a tropical storm on Monday (Aug. 30) as it moved inland, and it has since been downgraded extra to a tropical despair. But the storm has lifestyles yet as it churns north.
“As #Ida moves inland, heavy rainfall and flooding impacts are anticipated to unfold all the scheme thru the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys, the central and southern Appalachians, and Mid-Atlantic thru Wednesday,” the U.S. National Hurricane Heart tweeted on Monday.
WorldView-2, which is owned by Maxar subsidiary DigitalGlobe, launched in October 2009. The satellite zooms round Earth at an altitude of 480 miles (770 kilometers) and is in a position to resolving aspects as minute as 18 inches (46 centimeters) on the planet’s floor.
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