Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 storm packing 150 mph winds and a 19-foot wall of water, lashed south Louisiana on Aug. 29, leaving behind a swath of wreckage among the most destructive in recorded history.

The storm made landfall near Port Fourchon exactly 16 years to the day that Hurricane Katrina inundated coastal Louisiana and Mississippi. Only Hurricane Laura in 2020, Katrina in 2005 and the “Last Island Hurricane” of 1856 packed an equally devastating punch to Louisiana, and as with those storms, recovery is expected to be counted in months, rather than days…………

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