The resulting deluge prompted the issuance of the first flash flood emergency to include New York City, and the second to be issued by the National Weather Service's New York office. While Ida had long been downgraded into a tropical rainstorm by the time it reached the Northeast, it had fed on the contrast between warm, humid air south and east of the storm's center coupled with cooler air to its northwest, AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Bob Larson explained during early September 2021. Jerilyn Collins returns to her destroyed home with the assistance of the Louisiana National Guard to retrieve medicine for herself and her father, and a few possessions, after she evacuated from rising floodwater in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, Louisiana on Aug. At the time, over 1 million residents were still without power across the state.Ībout 17 of the 91 deaths (18.7%) attributed to Ida were generator- or power outage-related, the CDC found. To add to the misery, a heat advisory was issued for parts of Louisiana and Mississippi in the days following the storm, with RealFeel® Temperatures hovering at or around 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Aug. 10, storm-caused outages in less-populated areas persisted for over a month, according to the radio station WWNO.

Over 1 million customers across Louisiana found themselves without electricity the day following landfall, and while power was almost entirely restored by Sept. A month after Hurricane Ida roared ashore with 150-mph (241-kph) winds, communities all along the state's southeastern coast - Ironton, Grand Isle, Houma, Lafitte and Barataria - were still suffering from the devastating effects of the Category 4 storm. The costliest hurricane in the Atlantic Basin that hasn't had its name retired was Hurricane Sally in 2020 at $7.9 billion, which ranks 32nd on the list.Īudrey Trufant Salvant stands near a casket that floated in floodwaters from a nearby cemetery to her home in Ironton, La., Monday, Sept. It's followed by Hurricane Harvey ($143.8 billion in 2017), Hurricane Maria ($103.5 billion in 2017) and Hurricane Sandy ($80 billion in 2012). Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans 16 years earlier to the day, remains the costliest storm on record at $180 billion, with the 2022 CPI-adjusted cost. After the storm caused catastrophic damage in the Northeast, he revised his estimate to $95 billion.

Myers had estimated in late August, the total damage and economic loss from the hurricane would fall between $70 billion and $80 billion. Just this month, the hurricane was ranked the fifth-costliest storm on record at $76.5 billion, according to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and the National Hurricane Center. With a catastrophic path that carved hundreds of miles from Louisiana through New Jersey, 91 deaths were attributed to Hurricane Ida in late August 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. The panel maintains the rotating lists of names that are used in each tropical cyclone basin, only altering the list to remove a name in the case of a particularly deadly or costly storm. Ida will join the ranks of retired storm names after the Category 4 hurricane claimed dozens of lives and wrought widespread destruction across the nation, even when weakening into a tropical rainstorm, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Hurricane Committee ruled Wednesday.

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