Hurricane Ida left a Louisiana community so devastated that it’s not possible to live there at the moment, a parish leader said Tuesday. Grand Isle is “uninhabitable,” Jefferson County Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng told reporters in a briefing. Grand Isle is on the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 108 miles south of New Orleans. Ida struck Louisiana on Sunday, leaving severe damage and knocking out power to over one million people in the state. Sheng said a team that included local officials was able to reach the island on Tuesday to begin an assessment of the damage. Officials have determined that people should not return to it at this time and that anybody still there should leave. “There’s three feet of sand across the entire island,” she said, citing officials who toured the area. “This is a result of 10 to 12 breaks in the levee on the Gulf Side.” Every …
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