Gov. John Bel Edwards said during a news conference Monday all of Louisiana’s levee systems performed “extremely well” as the powerful, category 4 Hurricane Ida slammed the state.
“Ida came in very much as advertised. Very, very strong storm. The rain, I know you mentioned the wind, it was catastrophic. But the rain fell along the track, just east of the track, it would have been what was advertised,” Edwards said. “And when you push that much rain, you are going to have flooding issues and we certainly have people that are in the second floors of the house and some in the attic and so forth, we are rescuing right now.
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