{"id":206,"date":"2009-11-10T06:28:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=206"},"modified":"2009-11-13T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:52:57","slug":"storm-ida-us-gulf-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/storm-ida-us-gulf-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Ida drenches US Gulf coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Storm<\/a>Still packing strong winds, tropical storm Ida has made landfall on the US Gulf coast after leaving more than 130 people dead in Central America.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ida was 153 kilometres southwest of Mobile in Alabama on Tuesday, moving north at a speed of 10 miles per hour with sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, the national hurricane centre in Miami, in Florida, said.<\/p>\n

Officials announced “voluntary evacuations” for low-lying areas outside New Orlean’s levee protection system, especially fishing communities on the state’s storm-eroded coast.<\/p>\n

Storm tides could be six feet higher than normal, resulting in “nuisance flooding” across the Louisiana coastline and cutting out power, Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor, warned.<\/p>\n

“If people are thinking about evacuating they need to do it now,” sergeant Markus Smith from Louisiana state police, said.<\/p>\n

However, the US army corps of engineers said it was “confident” that the network of levees, pumps and drainage canals would protect New Orleans from serious flooding.<\/p>\n

Schools in the city and its suburbs were closed on Monday and motorists were urged to stay off the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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