WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has warned that the Ida storm will be a big storm that threatens the soul and has promised all the federal assistance needed for countries to be affected.
Ida’s storm made a landing in the US Louisiana state as a category four storm on Sunday (local time).
In particular, Ida crashed into the Gulf coast on the 16th anniversary of Burricane Katrina disaster.
Speaking at the Sunday meeting of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Biden said that Ida was a storm “threatening the life”.
“The destruction tends to be very large, we should not make ourselves …
Everyone must listen to instructions from local and state officials, how dangerous is this, and consider it serious,” Biden said, adding that the state of Louisiana, Alabama and Michigan would Get “full resources from the federal government.” On Sunday, the FEMA Deanne Criswell administrator spoke with the government and state officials from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi to update it in the preparation of Biden Administration for Ida storm, promising assistance in local emergency response efforts.
Biden visited the FEMA National Response Coordination Center on Sunday (local time).
On Saturday (local time), he spoke with Criswel, while the previous day the President spoke with the Governor of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, promising full support.
According to the White House, before the storm, more than 2,400 FEMA employees were deployed and the agency had also prepared millions of millions of food and liters of water, as well as tarpaulins, generators, and additional ambulances.
The sanctuary has been opened in affected countries and US coast guards have positioned ships and aircraft for search and rescue efforts.
Biden approved the declaration of emergency disasters for Louisiana and Mississippi on Friday and Saturday, respectively, ratifying direct federal assistance, including power plants.
More than 504,000 Louisiana residents without strength on Sunday afternoon when Hurricane Ida began to move in the New Orleans area, according to podoutage.us.
The Mississippi River in New Orleans has partially reversed the flow on Sundays, according to data from US Geological Surveys (USGS).
Louisiana Governor John Bell Edwards warned on Saturday that Ida could be one of the strongest storms to hit the US country since the 1850s, while New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell urged people to evacuate themselves