Impacts of Hurricane Ida in and Around New Orleans

There are a lot of them, but let's look at 2 videos. And then at the end of the post are some links to how to get the best data on the storm.

The first is storm surge. From dry land to 2 or 3 feet under water. Timelapse captures storm surge in St. Bernard Parish in 1 hour

Security video captured the life-threatening storm surge in St. Bernard Parish as Hurricane Ida moves inland in southeast Louisiana.

The St. Bernard Parish Government shared the footage on social media from Fire Station No. 12 in Delacroix, La. The video shows multiple before-and-after clips within a one-hour time span around noon. Several clips show dry land that then becomes nearly unrecognizable under storm surge.

Delacroix, LA is about 25 miles SE of New Orleans, in St. Bernard Parish.

The wind associated with a Cat 4 hurricane is hard to describe. So let's look at a video. Hurricane Ida lashes Port Fourchon

Port Fourchon is where Hurricane Ida made landfall.

The video at that 2nd link is not unbelievable if you've been in a hurricane. Ida came ashore with 150 MPH winds. The audio is a bit loud on that 2nd video. You have been warned.

WWL - Channel 4 in New Orleans - is one of the stations I was watching for my news feed/commentary. The other was WVUE Fox Channel 8. Between those 2 stations, the satellite imagery from NASA (by way of WeatherNerds.org) and the weather radar, I can do without the antics of the Weather Channel.

You also actually get better information from the local stations, because Mayor Cantrell called one of the stations, the presidents of a couple of Parishes in the area called the stations to give updates on various issues. News reports from earlier in the day, covered things like a roof that came off a building early in the day in The French Quarter, a spokesperson for the Sewer & Water District discussing the status of the pumps and reserve power generators that will try to handle the inevitable flooding, the state of the seawall. etc. One of the gates of the seawall is "down for maintenance" near the Lake Front Airport. That is an airport that has been used in the past for medical evacuation flights. And on. More than just a "meteorologist" standing on a beach, or in the street, explaining how bad the wind is.

Channel 4, WWL in New Orleans. That link is to the live coverage of Hurricane Ida.

Fox 8 Live in New Orleans. That link doesn't say that it is specifically for Hurricane Ida, but I suspect that it might be.

The Weather Radar link above is good.

For satellite data you can find everything at NASA's GOES program site, but I like Weather Nerds a little better. It is easier to produce GIFs of the satellite data that are small enough Twitter will load them (example below). The GIFs from NASA are huge. (Meant for broadcast television in HD.)