10.27pm EDT
22:27
First death related to Hurricane Ida
The first death related to Hurricane Ida has been reported by the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office. In a statement on Facebook, it said:
Shortly after 8:30 p.m. deputies received reports of a citizen possibly injured from a fallen tree at a residence off of Highway 621 in Prairieville. Deputies arrived on scene and confirmed that the victim is now deceased.
10.22pm EDT
22:22
Ida is now a category 2, WWL TV reports:
(@CJohnFranklin)
9 pm #Ida Update: A little more good news. Ida is back down to a Category 2 with winds of 110 mph. Pressure has come up to 950 mb. Slowly moving at 9 mph. Conditions will improve through the overnight and Monday. #BeOn4 @wwltv pic.twitter.com/6kzS1W5R3Q
10.10pm EDT
22:10
St Bernard Parish Government, in the southeast of New Orleans, has shared CCTV footage from around 3pm Sunday
(@StBGov)
Security camera footage from the Delacroix Yacht Club coming from the Delacroix back levee towards Bayou Terre Bouef. #ida #idahurricane #Category4 pic.twitter.com/jDnWiyT5j4
10.01pm EDT
22:01
The view from inside the WGNO station’s newsroom in metropolitan New Orleans
(@Chris_R_Welty)
Ceiling tiles are beginning to fall in our WGNO Newsroom. Multiple leaks and holes in our roof. pic.twitter.com/uKnoULFajl
(@Chris_R_Welty)
Portions of the WGNO roof is coming off. pic.twitter.com/TlN71XiVto
9.55pm EDT
21:55
The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans is asking residents to “limit water usage” at home, to decrease the amount of wastewater that needs to be removed – and help prevent sewage backups.
Due to the power cuts, the board is currently using “self-generated sources of power” to drain stormwater and pump drinking water into the city. However, there is no backup power to operate sewer pumping stations. “We are assessing how many of the 84 stations are impacted but the number may be very significant,” SWB New Orleans said.
(@SWBNewOrleans)
Although we have lost all Entergy power, our teams are working quickly and decisively to make up for this with our self-generated power sources, including Turbines 4, 5, and 6 and EMD, as well as backup generators located at our drainage pumping stations.
9.42pm EDT
21:42
The hospital that lost some power is Thibodaux Regional Health System in Lafourche Parish. Andrea Gallo at the New Orleans Advertiser reports that a back-up generator failed, meaning staff had to manually ventilate some patients. It is unclear how many patients were affected but power generators appear to be working again.
(@aegallo)
Update on our story about Thibodaux Regional losing generator power in ICU: hospital says via social media that the generator is back on-line. Awaiting updates from other Louisiana hospitals about how they’ve fared today, Ochsner will brief us at 9 pm CSThttps://t.co/44PVoRZo2e
9.38pm EDT
21:38
Power cut across entire city of New Orleans
Hello, Rebecca Ratcliffe here taking over from my colleague, Martin Farrer.
The energy company Entergy has confirmed that power has been cut off across the entire city, according to an update posted on Twitter by the New Orleans’ Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
The message describes “catastrophic transmission damage”.
(@nolaready)
@EntergyNOLA has confirmed that New Orleans has no power. The only power in the city is coming from generators. #Ida pic.twitter.com/9clSeFcz3T
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9.36pm EDT
21:36
The storm surge and winds from Hurricane Ida was so strong it reversed the flow of the mighty Mississippi River. The same phenomenon happened during Hurricane Katrina but is “extremely uncommon”, USGS hydrologist Scott Perrien told CNN.
He said the river level rose about seven feet due to the surge, shifting the flow from 2 feet per second to about half a foot per second in the opposite direction.
9.30pm EDT
21:30
Metairie is in metropolitan New Orleans:
(@SusanRoesgen)
@WGNOtv producers and directors forced to leave control room during our live coverage- the ceiling has peeled away– we are in the Galleria in Metairie
9.29pm EDT
21:29
The Guardian’s US southern bureau chief, Oliver Laughland, is reporting from New Orleans whenever communications allow. The city has just issued a flash flood warning until midnight. It is 8.30pm there at time of writing.
There are reports that one of the hospitals in a coastal area of Louisiana had lost all power in its Covid intensive care unit and stall are manually ventilating a number patients. We will bring you more details as they confirmed.
9.24pm EDT
21:24
(@OfficialJoelF)
Winds have not died down. It’s dark out and all of New Orleans has no power pic.twitter.com/5TErvbRCn1
9.22pm EDT
21:22
Welcome to our rolling coverage of Hurricane Ida after it made landfall on the coast of Louisiana.
Here’s what we know so far:
Hurricane Ida has knocked out all power in the city of New Orleans after making landfall late on Sunday morning at Port Fourchon. The only power in the city is coming from generators.
Ida is one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US and has wreaked havoc, ripping roofs off buildings, downing trees and reversing the flow of the Mississippi river.
It is 16 years exactly since Hurricane Katrina, the catastrophic hurricane that killed more than 1,800 on the Gulf coast in 2005.