Hurricane Ida Barreling Toward Louisiana as Category 4 Storm
Hurricane Ida was crossing the Gulf of Mexico as a major hurricane early Sunday, on track for a potentially devastating landfall on the Louisiana coast while emergency officials in the region grappled with opening shelters for displaced evacuees despite the risks of spreading the coronavirus.
The National Hurricane Center predicted Ida could be an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane with 130 mph winds when it makes an expected afternoon landfall. The storm arrived on the exact date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier.
Ida was a Category 4 hurricane Sunday morning with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph. The storm was centered about 185 miles southeast of coastal Houma, Louisiana, and was traveling northwest at 15 mph.
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