Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 Storm

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3. Fortunately there are not a lot of people living where the eye is landing

Port Fourchon is going to have the crud knocked out of it, but that's mostly businesses with industrial structures that are prepared anyway. Here in Mandeville (across Lake Pontchartrain from NOLA) it's hardly even raining and winds are gusting maybe 20-30 MPH. I expect that to get worse, but not much worse and not for very long as the storm seems to be skirting the metro area. Houma is likely to take a bit of a pounding, but it's pretty far inland so probably not much surge, and depending on when the track recurves Baton Rouge might get a significant wind+rain event. As for the chicken little "hurricane's comin' we're all gonna DIE" refrain I'm really not seeing it here.