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By JAY REEVES , Associated Press LAPLACE, La. — Debbie Greco and her family cowered on a stairway landing as Hurricane Ida sent 4 feet (1.2 meters) of muddy water rushing into her home in LaPlace along the west side of Lake Pontchartrain. She and her son had safely rescued her elderly parents from their home down the street Sunday. But now they prayed the roof would not collapse on all of them. “God blessed…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Ida is now being blamed for three deaths as the storm pushes through Tennessee and into the Appalachian Mountains. By Wednesday, Ida will bring rain and storms to central North Carolina. The combination of Ida and frontal boundary have most of the region under a level two risk for severe weather Wednesday. The threats include isolated tornadoes and damaging winds. Louisiana family sheltering in attic during Ida landfall was ‘the only…

By SAM METZ and JANIE HAR, Associated Press/Report for America SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A popular vacation haven normally filled with tens of thousands of summer tourists was clogged with fleeing vehicles Monday after the entire resort city of South Lake Tahoe was ordered to leave as a ferocious wildfire raced toward Lake Tahoe, a sparkling gem on the California-Nevada border. Vehicles loaded with bikes and camping gear and hauling boats were in gridlock…

By Lora Lavigne, WRAL reporter With the power out for millions of customers in the Gulf region from Ida, many people living in the Triangle are worried about their family members in the pathway of the storm. A Durham woman says her family and friends are stuck in Louisiana after traveling to New Orleans last week.. Erica McKever’s mom, sister and friends, all from Durham, were on vacation in the French Quarter of New Orleans…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — Take a breath, there’s plenty of gasoline. For now. Managers from nearly a dozen North Carolina oil and gas companies told ABC11 they are not too concerned about potential fuel shortages or skyrocketing prices emanating from Hurricane Ida, which hammered the Gulf Coast and led to the Colonial Pipeline briefly pausing output. Last May, The Colonial Pipeline cyber attack exposed a critical vulnerability in how both crude oil and refined petroleum…

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business & Chris Lovingood, WRAL reporter CNN — Hurricane Ida’s direct hit on the nation’s oil and gasoline industry could send gas prices higher, exacerbating inflation that’s already hurting American consumers. Hurricane Ida forced pipelines carrying gas from the Gulf Coast to other states to shut as a precaution ahead of the storm. However, experts say there’s nothing to panic about – unless people start panic-buying. Although the Colonial Pipeline had to…

By REBECCA SANTANA, JAY REEVES and KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Rescuers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters Monday, and utility repair crews rushed in, after a furious Hurricane Ida swamped the Louisiana coast and ravaged the electrical grid in the stifling, late-summer heat. Residents living amid the maze of rivers and bayous along the state’s Gulf Coast retreated desperately to their attics or roofs…