August 2021 – Page 5 – Weather Preppers

Austin is no stranger to lending a helping hand during hurricane season

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin is no stranger to lending a helping hand during hurricane season, and with IDA making landfall, the community reverting back to its old habits. The Iconic Austin Motel set aside 10 rooms for Hurricane Ida evacuees. The rooms are free until Wednesday. All evacuees have to do is show proof they are a Louisiana resident and call before arrival. While Austin Emergency Management officials said they haven’t been asked to help…

Tropical Storm Nora hugs Mexico's coast; 1 dead, 7 missing

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

The Jalisco state government said a teenager from Spain died Saturday night when a hotel partially collapsed in Puerto Vallarta. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Hurricane Nora caused floods and landslides along Mexico’s Pacific coast Sunday, while making landfall and passing just inland of the Mazatlan resort area before veering into the Gulf of California and weakening into a tropical storm. Communities in the coastal states of Michoacan, Colima and Jalisco experienced heavy rain and rough…

Lakewood Church, Gallery Furniture lead relief efforts for those affected by Hurricane Ida

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

Hurricane Ida came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane. HOUSTON — Hurricane Ida came ashore Sunday as a Category 4 storm. Parts of the Gulf Coast were ravaged by the storm surge and high winds. Many Louisiana residents fled to get out of harm’s way. Others stayed. And many will be left to pick up the pieces. One thing we know — people across the Houston area step up when others are hurting. And in…

'Changed our lives forever' | Woman recalls evacuating ahead of Hurricane Katrina 16 years ago

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

Meaghan Clanahan said she packed a suitcase expecting to return to her Louisiana home a few days after the storm passed. That didn’t happen. KATY, Texas — Sixteen years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged parts of the Gulf Coast. The destruction was so severe, some people left Louisiana and moved to Houston. Meaghan Clanahan is among those who permanently relocated to the Bayou City after the Category 5 hurricane hit on Aug. 29, 2005. “We lived…

Ida will become a Tropical Storm Monday

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

Hurricane Ida made landfall in southeast Louisiana Sunday, August 29 as a category 4 storm producing sustained winds at 150 mph. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hurricane Ida makes landfall Officially at 11:55 AM CDT Hurricane Ida made landfall as an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Winds were sustained at 150 mph and a minimum central pressure of 930 mb. That is an extremely strong hurricane and this will be one of worst…

'It's just devastating that we're here 16 years later,' | Charlotte aid workers prepare to help with Hurricane Ida relief

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Samaritan’s Purse and the American Red Cross are deploying help from NC after Hurricane Ida CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina aid workers are prepared to assist on the ground in Louisiana following the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. Organizations like the Greater Carolinas Region of the American Red Cross and Samaritan’s Purse are ready to help with shelter, water, food, and medical care. WCNC learned crews are on…

How to help those impacted by Hurricane Ida, how Houston will play a role in relief efforts

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

Hurricane Ida came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane. HOUSTON — Hurricane Ida came ashore Sunday as a Category 4 storm. Parts of the coast were ravaged by the storm surge. Many Louisiana residents fled to get out of harm’s way, others stayed and many will be left to pick up the pieces. One thing we know — people across the Houston area step up when others are hurting. And in the hours after Hurricane…

How to help those impacted by Hurricane Ida, and how Houston will play a role in relief efforts

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

Hurricane Ida came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane. HOUSTON — Hurricane Ida came ashore Sunday as a Category 4 storm. Parts of the coast were ravaged by storm surge. Many Louisiana residents fled to get out of harm’s way. Others stayed. And so many will be left to pick up the pieces. One thing we know — people all across the Houston area step up when others are hurting. And in the hours after…

In New Orleans, Anxiously Watching the Levees as Hurricane Ida Arrives

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

By Richard Fausset, Katy Reckdahl and Chelsea Brasted, New York Times NEW ORLEANS — As Hurricane Ida began violently tearing through South Louisiana on Sunday, Kelli Chandler was holed up in a windowless office, waiting and watching for the answer to a question that all of New Orleans was asking: Would the levees — the newer, stronger, more sophisticated levees — hold back the storm? Chandler, an official in the nerve center of the sprawling…

Stunning plane video taken inside the eye of Hurricane Ida

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

– Live video can be streamed via WFAA. Incredible and terrifying footage of the eye of Hurricane Ida shows the catastrophic storm swirling toward Louisiana on Sunday. “Stunning video taken from inside the eye of #Ida this morning by the NESDIS Ocean Winds Research team,” the National Hurricane Center posted on Twitter. Stunning video taken from inside the eye of #Ida this morning by the NESDIS Ocean Winds Research team during a flight on the…

Staff rushed out of control room as Hurricane Ida rips away part of roof at WGNO, employees say

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

The TV station is located at The Galleria in Metairie. METAIRIE, La. — Producers and directors have been forced to evacuate their control room at New Orleans ABC affiliate WGNO. Longtime journalist Susan Roesgen, who anchors at the television station, tweeted that Hurricane Ida had forced staffers out of the control area in the midst of live coverage. “The ceiling has peeled away,” Roesgen wrote. WGNO is located at The Galleria on Galleria Drive in…

Hurricane Ida lashes Louisiana, knocks out New Orleans power

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., knocking out power to all of New Orleans, blowing roofs off buildings and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River as it rushed from the Louisiana coast into one of the nation’s most important industrial corridors. The Category 4 storm hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier,…

'We were devastated': Durham couple remembers Hurricane Katrina like it was yesterday

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) — A Durham couple remembers Hurricane Katrina like it was yesterday; Sunday, Aug. 29, marks 16 years since it first hit New Orleans as Hurricane Ida washes over the city. Victoria Olsen and Dale Bellard had their home stripped away from them as Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in Mississippi back in 2005. “The house came down on top of us while we were there… I mean it was a mess,” said…

Colonial Pipeline announced they have temporarily shut down fuel lines due to Hurricane Ida

Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

The pipeline company said they have an extensive emergency preparedness program in place and activated its emergency response plan. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday, the Colonial Pipeline announced as a ‘precautionary and routine safety measure’ two fuel lines from Houston to Greensboro were shut down temporarily. “Our thoughts and prayers are with our neighbors and colleagues across the southern coastline impacted by this extreme weather event,” said Wes Dunbar, vice…

Colonial Pipeline temporarily shuts down 2 fuel lines as Hurricane Ida makes landfall

Posted on August 29, 2021August 30, 2021 by WeatherPreppers

As Hurricane Ida made landfall in the U.S., Colonial Pipeline says it will be closing two of its fuel lines from Texas to North Carolina as a “precautionary and routine safety measure.” Colonial expects the pipeline to return to full service as the storm moves out of the region but will first be subject to evaluations and “successful execution of the company’s start-up plan.” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, says shutting…

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