Hurricane Ida forecast to hit Louisiana on Sunday as Category 4 storm
Hurricane Ida forecast to hit Louisiana on Sunday as Category 4 storm
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Ida is expected to make landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane on the same date Hurricane Katrina hit 16 years ago. Hurricane Ida, which forecasters expect to make landfall on coastal Louisiana Sunday evening as a life-threatening Category 4 storm, poses a significant threat to the New Orleans metropolitan area, according to weather officials. As mandatory evacuations were ordered for parts of the city, the New Orleans Saints NFL team said it would leave for Dallas on Saturday. The action was first reported by the Times-Picayune.

Terrebonne Parish officials ordered residents south of the Morganza levee system to evacuate effective Saturday at noon. An evacuation shelter at the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center was expected to open Saturday night, they said in a statement. New Orleans could take a particularly bad hit. The city's mayor, LaToya Cantrell, on Friday ordered mandatory evacuations for residents in low-lying areas outside of the city's levee system. She also called for voluntary evacuations inside the levee system.

With tropical storm conditions on track to arrive in the region late Saturday afternoon, officials said those who need to evacuate should do so immediately. Ida had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph with higher gusts Friday evening as it passed over western Cuba, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm will move into the Gulf of Mexico Saturday. "What I can tell you is Hurricane Ida is rapidly intensifying and the situation is changing, it seems, by the hour," Gov. John Bel Edwards said at a news conference Friday evening. The governor said he spoke to hurricane center forecasters who told him Ida's rapid intensification is happening "faster than expected."

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