Despair, anger in Louisiana in wake of Hurricane Ida

Laplace, United States (AFP) Aug 30, 2021

Seeing her ceiling caved in, her garage door smashed and the basketball hoop overturned in her yard, Lxchelle Arceneaux looked on with despair Monday at the devastation left behind by powerful Hurricane Ida, which swept through her town near New Orleans the night before. "My children were terrified," the 46-year-old told AFP in LaPlace, Louisiana, dressed all in blue and standing at the fron