H is for Hurricane Ida

This year's theme for my A-to-Z Blogging Challenge is Significant Events from 2021 and the first 3 months of 2022.

At the end of today's post is a teaser for Monday's I post.  Enjoy!  

H is for Hurricane Ida on August 29, 2021.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina strengthened to a Category 5 storm over the Gulf of Mexico, and made landfall in Louisiana as a category 3 storm.  Katrina resulted in 1800 fatalities.

On August 29, 2021, exactly 16 years later, Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana as a category 4 storm, with sustained winds of 150mph and gusts to 172mph.  It dropped 18 inches of rain in New Orleans.

 

Ida weakened over land but traveled all the way to the New York City area, including New Jersey and Connecticut.  Heavy rain, total 9.5 inches with 3 inches falling in a single hour, overwhelmed the area because the ground is mostly paved so the water had nowhere to go.  Subways flooded and 11 people drowned when their basement apartments filled with water.

https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ida-new-york-city-floods-new-york-hurricanes-62127a800fe171f8ab88ef2120fcd858

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ida

Here's a teaser for Monday's I post.  Remember, to avoid spoiling the answer for the next blog visitor, please comment on something related to the answer without giving the actual answer.