What weeks without power and water could look like for Ida storm victims
Hurricane Ida devastates Gulf Coast
Tiffany Miller embraces her daughter Desilynn, left, and godchild Charleigh after the family returned to their destroyed home in Golden Meadow, Louisiana, on Wednesday, September 1.
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The Maldonado family stands outside their damaged home in Barataria, Louisiana, on Tuesday. “I’ve lost everything in my trailer because of the hurricane. I’ve lost everything, my family has lost everything, and we’re now trying to find help. We all live in this area and now it’s all gone,” said Fusto Maldonado when asked about the storm’s impact.
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A dead fish lies on a road in Leeville, Louisiana, on Tuesday.
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A shrimper works to salvage his partially submerged boat in Golden Meadow on Tuesday.
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A palm tree is bent in half in Galliano, Louisiana, on Tuesday.
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Destroyed homes are surrounded by floodwaters near Point-aux-Chenes, Louisiana, on Tuesday.
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Workers on Tuesday remove a tree that fell on a home during the storm in Houma, Louisiana.
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What’s left of a home destroyed by the hurricane stands in Grand Isle.
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Michael Wilson stands in the doorway of his flood-damaged home in Norco, Louisiana, on Monday, August 30.
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Homes near Norco are surrounded by floodwaters on Monday.
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A rain shower soaks evacuees in LaPlace on Monday.
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A damaged McDonald’s sign is seen in Raceland, Louisiana, on Monday.
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A man rides a bicycle in front of a damaged building in Houma on Monday.
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An oil slick is seen on top of floodwaters in Kraemer, Louisiana, on Monday.
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Residents wave at a US Coast Guard helicopter while waiting to be rescued from their flooded home in LaPlace on Monday.
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Theophilus Charles, 70, sits inside his damaged home in Houma on Monday.
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The highway is flooded near LaPlace on Monday.
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Residents are rescued from floodwaters in LaPlace on Monday.
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A damaged historic building lies in ruins in the Central Business District of New Orleans on Monday.
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A barge damages a bridge connecting Lafitte and Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, on Monday.
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Marquita Jenkins stands in the ruins of her hair salon in LaPlace on Monday.
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A destroyed car is seen Monday after an apartment building burned overnight in Kenner, Louisiana.
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A resident walks through floodwaters in LaPlace on Monday.
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Siblings watch men assess damage outside a hotel Monday in Houma.
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A woman pushes a stroller past a boarded-up building in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Monday.
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A downed tree lies on a house in New Orleans on Monday.
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Members of the Louisiana National Guard help with recovery efforts in New Orleans on Monday.
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A man looks up next to a section of roof that was ripped off a building in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Monday.
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Lights from a TV broadcast illuminate an otherwise dark Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Monday. More than 1 million customers in Louisiana were without power Monday morning, according to PowerOutage.US — including all of New Orleans.
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Montegut Fire Chief Toby Henry walks back to his fire truck in the rain as firefighters cut through trees on the road in Bourg, Louisiana, on Sunday, August 29.
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Firefighters cut through downed trees on a road in Bourg on Sunday.
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Barges are seen docked on the Mississippi River as Hurricane Ida hits Destrehan, Louisiana, on Sunday.
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People walk through the French Quarter in New Orleans on Sunday.
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European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet took this photo of Hurricane Ida on Sunday from the International Space Station.
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People work inside the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s headquarters in Washington, DC, on Sunday.
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A cyclist wears a face mask while biking through the rain and high winds on Canal Street in New Orleans on Sunday.
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Firefighters look out the window of a shelter in Bourg on Sunday as the storm passes.
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Storm clouds pass over a cemetery in New Orleans on Sunday.
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LaKeisha Verdin holds her 3-month-old son, Kevin, as she walks onto the front porch where her family was watching weather updates on the local news Sunday in Houma.
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A news crew reports from the edge of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans on Sunday.
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Wind blows Monroe Best’s hair and face mask Sunday in New Orleans.
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Bourbon Street in New Orleans is nearly empty on Sunday.
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A vehicle is abandoned in a flooded ditch next to the highway Sunday in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi.
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A man carrying his belongings walks past a sign outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on Sunday.
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A wall of rain moves over downtown New Orleans on Sunday.
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The Boudreaux family sits on their front porch Sunday as they await the arrival of Hurricane Ida.
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A man walks along the Mississippi River near the French Quarter in New Orleans early Sunday.
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People stand in line at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Saturday, August 28. Many residents were evacuating the area ahead of Hurricane Ida.
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Crews reopen a flood gate to help trapped motorists who missed a closure deadline on Saturday.
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Keith Clark brings a rope to a friend to help tie down a houseboat before he evacuates Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, on Saturday.
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Nikeia Washington from Vacherie, Louisiana, holds her granddaughter, Halia Zenon, at a hotel in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana, where they evacuated to ahead of the storm.
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Larry Ackman, bottom, helps neighbor Mike Jackson, left, and his son Cody board up windows Saturday in Morgan City, Louisiana.
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Traffic moves slowly along I-10 West on Saturday in Vinton, Louisiana, as residents evacuate toward Texas.
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A man drives a tractor through a flooded street Saturday in Guanimar, Cuba. Before entering the Gulf, Ida made landfall twice over Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane.
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President Joe Biden speaks during a FEMA briefing on Hurricane Ida on Saturday. “This weekend is the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina,” Biden said, “and it’s a stark reminder that we have to do everything we can to prepare the people in the region to make sure we’re ready to respond.”
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Clare and Joe Cermak work on putting storm shutters up on their home in Louisiana’s St. Charles Parish on Saturday.
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Highway traffic moves slowly overnight Saturday near Kenner, Louisiana, as many residents evacuate ahead of Hurricane Ida.
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Gregory Moore, left, helps fill sand bags as residents in Gulfport, Mississippi, prepare for the storm on Saturday.
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John Guenther unloads about 400 crab traps that he had to pull out of the water and move via flatbed trailer to dry near his home in the eastern St. Bernard Parish on Friday, August 27.
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Jennifer Tate fuels up a gas can Friday in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
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Workers stack bags of ice into a gas station freezer on Friday in Jefferson, Louisiana.
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A resident hammers the shutters of a 100-year-old house in New Orleans on Friday.
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