Rescue teams were expected to fan out across southeastern Louisiana on Monday as Ida continues to pose a danger for multiple states.
Hurricane Ida weakened to a tropical storm Monday after slamming into coastal Louisiana as one of the strongest storms to make landfall in the region, cutting off power to more than 1 million homes and businesses, including the entire city of New Orleans.
The powerful weather system continues to pose a danger for multiple states as it sweeps inland, and was expected to trigger major search and rescue operations. But the missions are getting complicated by inoperable 911 lines reported throughout southeastern Louisiana, including the heavily populated Orleans and Jefferson parishes.
Officials earlier warned of "life-threatening" floods. At least one person, a 60-year-old man, died in Ascension Parish, south of Baton Rouge, after a tree fell on his home, authorities said.
Electric utilities reported that slightly more than 1 million homes and businesses were without power in Louisiana and another 100,000 in Mississippi. Entergy New Orleans, the main power utility in the city, with nearly 200,000 customers, said the entire city lost electricity early Sunday evening because of "catastrophic damage" to its transmission system. The company tweeted Monday that it "will likely take days to determine the extent of damage to our power grid in metro New Orleans and far longer to restore electrical transmission to the region."
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