By Malaika Jabali ·August 30, 2021 Published · August 30, 2021 Updated
Hurricane Ida made landfall in New Orleans Sunday, hitting the city on the same date as Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Ida arrived in Louisiana with top winds of 150 miles per hour and was reduced to a Category 3 storm as it moved inland, Bloomberg reports. These wind speeds tied a record set by Hurricane Laura in 2020 and a storm from the 1800s. Katrina made landfall