Hurricane Ida Reversed Flow of Mississippi River For Hours, Knocked Out Power for Entire City of New Orleans — And It’s Still a Category 3

Hurricane Ida battered Louisiana without mercy on Sunday, making landfall as a Category 4 storm and maintaining that windspeed for about six hours before being downgraded to a Category 3. The storm’s winds and storm surge were so strong that the Mississippi River, which flows through New Orleans before it empties into the Gulf of […]