Evacuations, fear as Hurricane Ida nears US Gulf Coast
New Orleans (AFP) Aug 29, 2021
Owners were boarding up their shops and evacuations were underway Saturday as Hurricane Ida was on a path to hit New Orleans 16 years to the day the southern US city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. A handful of people were still on New Orleans streets, but many businesses had closed up ahead of what the National Weather Service called an "an extremely dangerous major hurricane." "Ev
