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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…

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…

Ida’s 150-mph winds tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland U.S. NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., blowing off roofs and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River as it rushed from the Louisiana coast toward New Orleans and one of the nation’s most important industrial corridors. The Category 4 storm hit on the same date Hurricane…

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Hurricane Nora caused floods and landslides along Mexico’s Pacific coast Sunday, while making landfall again and passing just inland of the Mazatlan resort area, then veered into the Gulf of California and weakened into a tropical storm. At least two people were injured and six fishermen were reported missing at sea. Rescue teams were searching for the fishermen, who had left port in Guerrero state Wednesday, said Adm. Julio César Pescina…

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 seems that stronger storms are becoming the norm, but the recipe was just right for Ida. NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane season is comprised of a block of time, 6 months worth, from June 1 through November 30 where it is most likely to find conditions just right for tropical development. Within that time there is a peak where activity spikes, around mid-August through the end of September. This time of year, we’re talking late…

The system made landfall Sunday afternoon, on the 16th anniversary that Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi. NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida blasted ashore along the Louisiana coast on Sunday, with the eye of one of the most powerful storms ever tp hit the U.S. arriving near the barrier island of Grand Isle. The powerful Category 4 storm made landfall on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier, about 40…