Hurricane Ida is looking eerily like a dangerous and perhaps scarier sequel to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in American history. But there’s a few still-to-come twists that could make Ida nastier in some ways, but not quite as horrific in others. “The main story with Katrina was storm surge damage, and over a vast area. The main story with Ida will be a combination of wind, storm surge, and fresh water flooding damage,” said meteorologist Jeff Masters, who flew hurricane missions for the government and founded Weather Underground. What could be different is crucial though: direction, size, and strength. Ida made landfall as a Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds—just shy of Category 5—on the same calendar date, Aug. 29, as Katrina did 16 years ago, striking the same general part of Louisiana with stronger wind speed, after rapidly strengthening by going over a similar patch of deep …
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