Hurricane Ida | Weather & Climate Satellite Imagery

Part 3 of my Hurricane IDA recap. If you ever wanted to know what a small city looks like after a direct hit from the core of a Cat-4 hurricane, here ya go. This is Downtown Houma the day after—almost unrecognizable. There's very heavy wind damage all across this city, which was the largest to get a direct hit from the storm at Cat-4 intensity. If there's a bright side, it's that the massive storm surge that was feared did not materialize in Houma. I expected the city to be underwater at the hei

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Group raising money for Cyclone Idai relief efforts in Zimbabwe