Bands of heavy rain containing strong wind gusts continue to spreading into the northern Gulf Coast as far east as Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle.
However, the worst conditions continue to be in southeast Louisiana, associated with the track of the eyewall of Ida.
Storm surge pushed water levels over 7 feet above normal at Shell Beach, Louisiana, and over 6 feet above normal at Waveland, Mississippi.
Serious storm surge flooding has been accompanied by wind gusts over 100 mph in Grand Isle, Louisiana, and several feet of storm surge from Lake Pontchartrain was captured in video in LaPlace, about 25 miles west-northwest of downtown New Orleans.
Water almost up to a stop sign was seen flowing through the Venetian Isles neighborhood in New Orleans East, an area under mandatory evacuation outside of protection from levees, according to WDSU TV.
The National Weather Service issued several extreme wind warnings for parts of southeast Louisiana Sunday, a rarely-issued warning for tornado-like winds of 115 mph or greater in the eyewall of Ida, potentially including the western side of the New Orleans metro area.
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According to NOAA's Best Track database, no Category 3 or stronger hurricane has taken a northward path just west of New Orleans similar to Ida in almost 106 years.
Numerous wind gusts over 100 mph were clocked in far southeast Louisiana near the coast, including in Galliano and Dulac. A wind gust to 153 mph was clocked aboard a ship...
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